Wow Jen Boyce now has raised $1269 for her Shave for the Cure attempt. Already 40% of her desired goal. But I think at this rate, Jen is going to easily surpass this goal- of course if everyone gets behind her! If you missed that earlier blog, where I wrote about the amazing Jen Boyce […]
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One of my favourite nights of the week now is Monday night – only because it’s Zumba night. I wrote about it many blogs ago and feel it worthy of another mention because our delightful Nicoletta is off to India for a ‘life experience’? All us girls are hoping like crazy that Nicoletta will come back with
Altruism is defined as the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others. In this day and age, when we are all time poor and stressed to perform at work, home and in all things media- social media, that is- it is increasingly easy to become very ego-centric and forget
Well you’ll be shocked to learn that despite writing a book last year- more than adequately fulfilling one of my New Year’s resolutions- I did NOT win the pretend competition of ‘who got the most number of resolutions’! In fact my husband Bob is claiming victory but I can’t be sure as I lost interest when
Well I can hardly move Christmas Day is full of excesses – beautiful food although the plum pudding really is more than the icing on the cake- more like the sinking of the Titanic; lovely company- children and their partners and family; Mum, who incredibly makes the trek to Noosa independently year after year to make the picture
Well I know lots of people think I am greedy because it wasn’t so long ago I was writing about gorgeous Italy. But it has been a big year and I was absolutely hanging out for this holiday at Noosa. Every year for quite a long time we come to Noosa for Christmas and New Year
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This has been the biggest year for continuing education. From the a 2 day Women’s Health Symposium in Melbourne early in the year, a pessary workshop in May, our national APA conference just held in Brisbane, an Overactive Bladder one day workshop in Brisbane coming up at the end of November – it has been huge.
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Well it was a busy first day of Women’s Health topics at the APA National Conference. The most compelling information that I became aware of is how well Women’s Health Physiotherapy is performing in the research area. Women’s Health has strong evidence in childbirth and ante-natal care; post mastectomy lymphodema management; osteoporosis; pregnancy related back and pelvic girdle pain and
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Well today I headed down to register at the Australian Physiotherapy Association National conference. It is being held at the Convention Centre in Brisbane and is going to be a wonderful opportunity to hear the latest research happening in all areas of Physiotherapy, but particularly for me, in the area of Continence and Women’s Health. We are privileged to
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The Great Trivia Event of 2011 has come and gone and everyone agreed – it was a wonderful night. The idea was to raise money for the special work that Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause do in Africa for the women who have fistulas and prolapse. The crowd of 150 was a happy, relaxed one –
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