Soph and Beau compilation 2019 I saw a patient yesterday who said she loved my last blog on #ClimateChange. I thanked her and said that this year, more than ever, there has been more and more non-pelvic floor focussed blogs because either I’m getting more grouchy as I get older, or there’s been more […]
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Change Chapter in my Books I had a lovely piece of feedback recently from a patient who loved the last chapter of my book Pelvic Floor Essentials – the chapter on Change. She said she found it inspiring and it had moved her to start exercising and addressing her incontinence issues after years of ignoring
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Endometriosis A long time ago I asked one of my physiotherapists, Amanda Waldock, to write a blog for me on Endometriosis. She divided it up into two parts and I promptly forgot to post Part 2 incorporating some of the treatment strategies for Endo. Tonight, when I realised the date was a significant one for
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The World with COVID19 Have you ever woken up and wondered if you are living in an alternate universe? I am continuing to document this roller coaster they call Coronavirus via my blog so that I can look back in 20 years and read about this extraordinary period of time since New Years Eve 2019.
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Amy Dawes, Co-founder of ABTA, Australian Birth Trauma Association This week is Birth Trauma Awareness Week and a couple of years ago one of my lovely patients who had suffered birth trauma wrote a blog for me. I loaded it into the blog site and then ‘life’ took over and I didn’t get to post
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Emu Mountain Walk Day I have decided I need to document for posterity (and my memory) the fabulous walks we have been doing around the region we love so much – the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. (There will be lots of photos for me to look back on – you may enjoy them also). I
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Today’s blog has been written by my newest physiotherapist, Samantha Richter who has trained firstly as sonographer, then an osteopath and finally a Doctor of Physiotherapy specialising in pelvic health. Samantha relocated from Darwin at the end of last year, but is actually a Brisbane girl originally. She has settled into our practice beautifully and
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When I was at school (a very long time ago) we had a disgusting way of dealing with menstrual pads and tampons. It involved some type of incinerator in the girls toilets and smelt disgusting. If any old BGGS girls can enlighten me as to what actually went on in there and remind me, send
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What a miserable past few weeks women (and caring men, our teenagers and children) have had to endure in the lead up to International Women’s Day 2021. Instead of wondering what to write about – which remarkable women to profile, highlight, extol – I’ve had to endure listening to shocking tales of disrespect and violence
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Sue, Katie, Sophie and Micheal (in utero),January 1991 I remember the day I was standing outside my children’s school and a friend told me she had a prolapse and I said to her “How do you know?” -which was pretty funny/weird because I was a physiotherapist taking antenatal classes and heavily pregnant with my third
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