My two beautiful grandchildren Thursday is grandchildren day. I love Thursdays because I get to chill out with a four year old and sometimes a six year old (and my husband Bob), watch my grandsons play, look at the birds, the plants and nature in general and relax from the hectic pace of our clinic. […]
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As you know I regularly ask patients to write blogs for me about their particular journey with their pelvic floor dysfunction. And many times the resulting blog that they send me is articulate and resonates with me on many levels. Well today’s blog is no different. After five turbulant weeks in Australia, when women
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Today I am at work rather than kicking up my heels at an Australia Day barbie out of respect for our First Nations people. I just don’t understand why we continue to disrespect our Indigenous Australians by continuing to choose this day to celebrate all that it is to be Australian, on the day they
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Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause helping fistula patients in Africa Back in 2017 as one of my New Year’s pledges I decided to ask my family and friends to give a donation to HADA -the organisation which fund-raises for the fistula and prolapse repair work that Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause
Warning: Sweary words with asterisks appear through this blog. It’s 2020 and it’s been a tough year. I hope you understand. Well here we are at the end of a year like no other in my lifetime. It started in Australia with horrific bushfires and the main headline story through the year being our new
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Pelvic Health in Regional and Rural Queensland Small Business Grant Win: Extending the scope of Telehealth in rural and regional Queensland Today (8th September) is World Physiotherapy Day, plonked right in the middle of Women’s Health Week and it is a good time to chat about an exciting new project that we have undertaken. In
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A post for Women’s Week and World Physiotherapy Day Small Business Grant Win: Extending the scope of Telehealth in rural and regional Queensland Today (8th September) is World Physiotherapy Day, plonked right in the middle of Women’s Health Week and it is a good time to chat about an exciting new project that we have
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I have to own up to it. I’m suffering from burnout. It’s not burnout from work, although we are all working very hard lately. And it’s not burnout from keeping up to date with the necessary reading of research and available professional development that has sprung up left, right and centre since we all moved
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This is a CPOP pessary – you can read about its design and how it came about here in this earlier blog. It’s a great pessary which continues to surprise me because sometimes it works when you never think it will on quite significant prolapses. As you can see it’s a different shape and that
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