Today I did a short five minute segment on Katherine Feeney’s show on 612ABC radio – she is having short top tips for COVID from lots of health professionals and she is brave enough to allow me to talk about …………really anything. Today I was going to talk about persistent pain disorders and how all […]
A very short blog on Movement Read More »
Here is a collage of lots of photos of women. There are some happy smiling photos, but you may be surprised that perhaps 1 in 10 of the younger women may have endometriosis causing painful periods; up to 25% of all the women may have dyspareunia (painful intercourse) and some may have continual pelvic pain
Continence Awareness Week 2020: A Patient’s Journey. Read More »
This is taken directly from The Prostate Foundation of Australia (with permission from Dr Joanne Milios). It is entitled: “A pelvic floor exercise program starting before prostate surgery improves the recovery of urinary continence” Dec 2019. It has been written by Wendy Winnall, a scientific writer for PCFA to summarise the excellent research by Jo
Prostatectomy: PF muscle training programme pre-operatively Read More »
Resciesa looking towards The Dolomites, 2019 Recalibration, reframing valued activities and reconceptualization: the title of this blog sounds like I am going to write about our new life post COVID. What will it mean? Where will we be? What will we be doing? What’s going to be our future? (And I am being metaphorical here-
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It is surprising that I am up to Blog Number 339 and I have never written anything about Endometriosis. I apologise unreservedly to the 1 in 10 women who suffer with the persistent pain / fertility issues that Endo presents them with. In these COVID19 times, I have staff who have less patients and more
Endometriosis Part 1 Read More »
Most of what I do every day relies on restoring trust to our patients’ bodies. Trust that their bladder will hold and not let them down at the back door or in the (extremely) long queue at the checkout (these crazy COVID19 days). Trust that they can hold their gas when they get into a
Restoring trust in your pelvic health #newCoronalife Read More »
International Women’s Day 2020 Post All my physiotherapists at different times have been asked to contribute to my blog by writing an article on some aspect of pelvic floor dysfunction for me. Today is the turn of my newest staff member, Amanda Waldock. Amanda is settling in beautifully at my practice after coming back from
Recognising that sexual intimacy is an important part of faith for women Read More »
Treating Overactive Bladder problems involves many strategies – I liken it to the many slices in a big apple pie. I recently saw a patient who was at her wits’ end with her urge urinary incontinence – one of the symptoms of a condition called the Overactive Bladder (OAB). The other symptoms are urinary frequency,
Life is very busy these days. Thanks to the internet we can fit in about twice as much as we used to be able to do, but still feel guilty about what we haven’t done. Busyness makes us exhausted and also means we don’t prioritize our own self-care. We literally stop listening to our bodies!
Listening through all the noise of life Read More »
Half the problem with pelvic health dysfunction is that people become secretive about it and don’t disclose it to their partner, their best friend and strangely not even their doctor. Yes that’s right – 65% of women and 30% of men sitting in a GP waiting room report some type of urinary incontinence, yet