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 »
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
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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
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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 »
You may remember that when we had the Pain and Relaxation classes at the studio, I started to produce some Nuggets of information for our clients (the Nuggets name dutifully ripped of from the magnificent Lorimer Moseley and Dave Butler of Explain Pain fame). It started as short one page handouts about persistent pain management
Procrastination (the art of avoiding the must do tasks) Read More »
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 »
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder is defined as the spontaneous, intrusive, and unwanted genital arousal (tingling, throbbing, pulsating) in the absence of sexual interest and desire. Usually any awareness of subjective sexual arousal is typically but invariably unpleasant. The arousal is unrelieved by one or more orgasms and the feeling of arousal persists for hours or
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My blog can be a useful resource for my patients (and for the general public). It’s like having a great big library of all the things I would love my patients to read at my finger tips. When we physios teach a vast amount of seemingly complex medical information in an hour to an hour
Persistent pelvic pain information in one area Read More »
This is another one of those blogs where my close family members need to look away, if me talking frankly about sex is embarrassing for them. But I want them to remember that the silence around sexual dysfunction is massive and it is important that, as a health professional working with women and men with
Metaphors that ruin your life Read More »