I mentioned in a previous blog Annie’s Story about the use of recovery shorts/ support pants for helping in the immediate and longer term recovery from birth, particularly with respect to Rectus Diastasis. I have always recommended early support for the abdominal muscles and the pelvic region through strong support undies, but it wasn’t until my […]
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Well everyone in the whole world is thrilled for Kate and William on the birth of their beautiful baby and so I decided to join the celebration and wish them well and offer a more practical gift than the usual booties and nappy service. I thought I’d revise the key things one must always do
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Today I am going to take you on a journey- a patient called Annie’s (*) journey. One with sublime highs and some horrible lows, but I can tell you now, it has a happy ending. Annie is 41, has quite a small frame and has always been slim and fit. Annie has collagen issues. She had her first
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I recently read some research (BMJ Open 2013:3:e002789) looking at the Caesarean rate in public and private hospitals in Western Australia. It looked at births to nulliparous women during 1996-2008 (155646). The study looked at the Caesar rate depending on the source of funding (private versus public hospital) and found 29% ( 45903) in total were performed. 24803 were performed in-labour
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Over the course of my blog writing, I have found that guest writers of blogs have been amongst the most popular of all my blogs. (No offence taken!) So recently I asked Vicki Lewis, a Personal Trainer, who took the time to find out all about ‘pelvic floor friendly exercising’ to make her a BETTER
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I was reading the Courier Mail the other day and saw a quote from Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. My knee jerk reaction was to write this quick Facebook entry: Now that may well be important for inventors, scientists or physicists when trying to solve important theories and create amazing new discoveries or devices.
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What do I mean by Pelvic Floor Friendly Exercise Tonight I was sending an email to the owner of my gym to draw him into the Pelvic Floor friendly exercising web and was trawling through all my blogs to link him in to one that succinctly summarized all the key points….and I realized there wasn’t
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Often I get an idea for a blog when consulting with a patient – a reaction to something they have said and I think: ‘You know that’s a really important message – I must write a blog about that!’ And so I jot the thought on a post-it note and it joins the pile of
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Well after 73 posts I am finally going to address the Elephant in the Room! Yes, I have been very sexist in my blog writing and have rarely mentioned the poor male of the species. Yes! men do suffer with urinary incontinence, albeit mostly 20-30 years after women are first hit with it and yes!
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I saw a patient yesterday who had had a repair 6 weeks ago and was really happy with how everything was going. Things were great – no leakage, no lump, defaecation easier and she had come to me to find out about exercise in the future. But things were so good she felt energised like
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