Pelvic Floor Recovery

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Mental Health Week: Can prolapse and incontinence cause depression?

For well over 25 years I have been specifically treating pelvic floor dysfunction and I have encountered many women who have suffered with anxiety and depression due to their bladder, bowel and prolapse problems. It is very confronting to discover that you have these very personal problems and often surreal that it can be associated with

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The Ins and Outs of Voiding and Defaecation – CFA Queensland Branch Conference 2015

Here’s the abstract for the talk I’ll be doing at the Continence Foundation of Australia Queensland Branch Conference on 13th March 2015. Click here for more information on the Conference: http://bit.ly/1DKXiAA Toilet training, like much of parenting, can be a mystery to many mothers and fathers and yet the implications for the child in their future years

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More of the 5 Step Plan: Step 4 Managing your Bowels Well.

Remember this series of blogs relates to a talk I did for the public a few weeks ago and Part 4 of the 5 Step Plan is all about bowels. Bowels Bring Down Prolapse (and cause failure of operations): WHY? Never taught correctly as a child how to defaecate Bad habits- stool wrong consistency, always strains

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Two education opportunities

Last chance for you to attend a FREE lecture on Prolapse at Coorparoo commencing at 6.30pm: Registration and refreshments 6.55pm: Welcome – Continence Foundation of Australia, Tracey Sparks 7.00pm: Prolapse – what are my options? – presented by Urogynaecologist, Dr Hannah Krause 7.45pm: The 5 Step Plan for Managing Your Prolapse – presented by Physiotherapist,

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CFA National conference- Like a Family Reunion

Extreme Dress-Ups: The Great Debate CFAConf2013 I am sitting on the plane coming back from our 22nd CFA National conference in Perth. And am feeling warm and fuzzy- the plane left on time, I’ve got a spare seat next to me so I can spread out, the Qantas streaming IPad is working, (unlike when on the nearly

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Our fabulous Tracey

I’ve just come home from our regular Continence Foundation of Australia (CFA)  Qld Branch meeting where a bunch of Committed Peddlers of Continence Promotion (CPCP or #pelvicmafia)  – nurses, Urogynaecologists, Physios, consumers and trade suppliers – planned the next series of public education forums, fundraising exploits and conferences for health professionals. Something tonight caused me

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