Sometimes this is what patients feel like when confronted with the changes to behavior necessary to improve their pelvic floor problems or make a decision regarding surgery or no surgery – backed into a corner with nowhere to go. I’ve spoken about the difficulties patients have when hearing that changing to decaffeinated tea and coffee […]
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As many of you are aware I am on Twitter and regularly tweet about articles and comment on other Pelvic Floor Physios’ comments and blogs. In fact, since my PR/Melbourne daughter Katie put me on Twitter last September, a couple of micro-seconds after I picked up my new iPhone, I have really taken to it.Before
I wrote about World Continence Awareness Week back in early February and suddenly I’ve blinked and here it is June and nearly on the eve of this major event in our calendar. This year the Queensland Branch have organized a special night where four Queensland authors of books related to better bladder and bowel management
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Boy that’s a big title for a blog. It wasn’t what I was going to write about this week but it’s very important to get this message out urgently and to our politicians. When economic times are tough it’s pretty easy to look at places to save money in areas that seem superfluous….such as The
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I am very privileged to have an article today on my blog written by a great Physio, a wonderful advocate for women and my lovely friend Michelle Kenway, author of Inside Out, a book comprehensively outlining the Do’s and Don’ts of exercising and general fitness for women with pelvic floor issues. I always get asked
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To everyone out there – I hope your week has been a bit less eventful than mine. It started on Monday when my Twitter account got hacked. Memo to all: Do not open a blog post that says ‘Have you heard the bad rumours about you?’ A lot of other people (who unfortunately got hacked
Well I have started writing this blog from Mackay airport where we have been waiting for 3 hours now! Unfortunately our plane that we were to catch from Mackay through to Townsville needed a tyre change and caused the long delay. Before I tell you how much I enjoyed the visit to Mackay, I do
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I am excited! I am heading of to the tropical north this weekend to do a couple of talks to promote my book and importantly to watch my daughter Sophie play for Tigers against the Townsville Steel team. And who’s to say that Bob and I won’t have a nice romantic walk along the Strand
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Over the years I have received many gorgeous but somewhat self-indulgent presents for Mothers Day – pedicures, vouchers for hair do’s, a gorgeous watch – but this year I am going to make a suggestion to all daughters ( and sons) out there on the wide world web to do their Mum’s a favour and
If anyone has bought my book, you know that my husband Bob, is responsible for sending out all the invoices for my book sales. Not only that, when you read the book, you will see that he was also responsible for the great drawings and was instrumental in the publishing process. So I have established