I have included a link today to a Radio National Life Matters show on a silent epidemic-Persistent Pelvic Pain. I was alerted to this wonderful discussion by my husband (an avid Life Matters listener) as I was working with patients at the time of the show and have only just this morning listened to the […]
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Having a baby is a magnificent experience. Seeing the combination of you and your partner’s genetic pool, nurturing them, watching them stumble and grow into beautiful big people is a wonderful life experience. It’s just a shame about the collateral damage for women’s pelvic floors following a vaginal delivery. Nerve compression, levator avulsion, prolapse, urinary incontinence,
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Don’t give up – a story I was reading a funny yet sad blog by @Joe Hildebrand on his attempt to purchase a house in Sydney which resonated hugely with me, as my daughter @croftyk7 too, is on the treadmill of trying to buy her first house in Melbourne. It appears you have to be a zillionaire
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Recently one night in the space of 10 minutes I read an email (one of Peg’s emails to my Mum) and an article tweeted by one of my Twitter pals mentioning the word ‘burden‘. They both resonated with me because so many of my patients are significantly ‘burdened‘ with their persistent pelvic pain (PPP). Firstly
Well it seems like forever since I’ve written a blog – it has been ssssoooo busy….with patients, with writing and presentIng a talk on physiotherapy management of pain for the IUGA conference, and finishing and publishing my second book. Yes! Pelvic Floor Recovery Essentials was released on Monday. I had so many requests from patients to do this
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I think what distinguishes the frustration patients find with pelvic floor dysfunction as opposed to other musculo-skeletal conditions is the ongoing nature of the commitment to treatment and rehabilitation required when treating their problem. The fact is, that all the strategies taught to you by your Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, have to be continued every day
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This week has been incredibly busy with final preparations for our World Continence Awareness Week forum The 4 Authors: The Perfect Ingredients to Improve Your Bottom Line to be held on Thursday 28th June,2012. Between reading and sending about 721 emails, treating patients, proofreading my second book and preparing a lecture for an International Conference
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Warning: This blog contains content of a sexual nature. The first entries Woman’s and Man’s Diary has been borrowed (I don’t know where it originated so apologies to the original author) and modified (to give it a local Queensland flavour). Woman’s Diary Thursday, 14th June, 2012 Saw him in the evening and he was acting
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Nothing causes more misery in people’s lives than bowel problems. Whether it be constipation, incomplete evacuation, faecal incontinence, sneaky gas, rectal prolapse, haemorrhoids, pain from anal fissures or proctalgia fujax – and sadly, some people can have some or all of these conditions. One of the more famous people who reportedly suffered with major constipation
You may remember the joke email trail Mum sends me regularly. One of my most favourite was titled Zen Teachings and the blog I wrote back in November was Zen Teachings No 3 ‘No one is listening until you pass wind’. Now it s time for more Zen Wisdom. (Sincere apologies to the real
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