Having written blogs on Change and Confidence, today I have decided to write about Acceptance. I think, as you can see from some of the stories that I have written about in my blogs, that there are many unhappy ladies dealing with these issues of prolapse, incontinence – both urinary and faecal – frequency, urgency, […]
As Easter is approaching, for the first time in my life it isn’t chocolate I’m hanging out for. What I am absolutely dying for are some ‘downtime days’. It has been sooooo busy lately that now I feel like I need 2 or 3 days no one else knows about, not just one per week
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Well on this special day for women, I thought I’d write a blog about a problem that women mostly keep quiet about- ‘Prolapse’. I had a patient recently who had had significant improvement with the FEELING and LOOK of her prolapse and was so excited that she would be able to postpone surgery for a
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Today I saw two patients who have sort of encapsulated everything I wanted to get across when I wrote this blog on Change back in January. I have changed the first patient’s name for the obvious reasons. The second lady has consented to using her real name. The first lady, Nancy, had a serious urethral sphincter
The very last lecture at the recent CFA Conference in Melbourne was a sobering one from Assoc Prof Christopher Maher reporting on a recent Food and Drug Administration Alert – the American equivalent of our Australian TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) – with regard to the use of vaginal mesh for prolapse. Chris very clearly set out
Last week, I attended our Queensland Branch of the Continence and Women’s Health Special Interest Group Christmas Drinks. As well as some lovely nibblies and drinks at Katrina’s house (thanks Kate), we had an informal talk from one of our members Robyn, on the management of issues such as pelvic pain and other continence issues
I am on the end of a long trail of funny joke emails. My Mum sends them to me; her friend sends them to her and her friend’s daughter sends them to her ….and so on. I like getting joke emails – because in the middle of a chaotic day of working hard with patients,
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Its been a week since the APA conference wrapped up and I thought I’d jot down some of the more interesting things to be presented. It was a great three days of Women’s Health topics – raising as many questions as answers were given. Throughout the conference there were some great lectures on chronic pain
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An abstract recently presented at the International Continence Society Conference in Glasgow (September, 2011) won the Prize Award of Best Clinical Abstract. Well respected Melbourne physiotherapist Dr Helena Frawley, from the University of Melbourne was a co-author on this paper. The article titled “A multi-centre randomized controlled trial of a pelvic floor muscle training intervention for
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Its been a busy time since heading off to Hobart for the ‘Explain Pain’ Conference. What a wonderful 2 days – David Butler a physiotherapist , who together with Lorimer Moseley wrote the book ‘Explain Pain’, led us on a journey through the latest neuroscience in treating chronic pain. It was heavy going on the