International Women’s Day (IWD) is very important to me. It recognizes that women’s issues in the workplace, in the home and in society in general need addressing. By even having a designated day draws the attention of the media and allows a conversation to commence which may even lead to changes in policy at a government […]
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Sunshine Beach 2015 I have been having the amazing opportunity this beach holiday to partake in the wonderful pleasure of just pure observing- observing the development of new behaviours. When my kids were little – we loved (and photographed with a camera not a phone) every new little skill they acquired and each new milestone they mastered. But now I
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Life is beyond chaotic at the moment. What seemed like a brilliant idea just barely 3 months ago when I drove past 47 Hampstead Rd Highgate Hill – a little shop I had admired for many years- and lo and behold, there it was with a ‘For Sale’ sign up. Within seconds I had the agent
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Yes you read it right- there is a (not so) new miracle cure for bad backs, prolapse, urinary incontinence and overactive pelvic floor muscles leading to dyspareunia…STOP DOING SIT-UPS. This somewhat ‘tongue-in-cheek’ blog is in response to a post from one of my UK #pelvicmafia colleagues Fiona Mitchell on the Women’s Health page on Facebook.
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Tonight I watched a brilliant programme on SBS on the new, ongoing research into the effect of a placebo and it reminded me of this blog I wrote a year ago on the Art of Conversation. In the SBS programme one of the research experiments compared the same placebo effect of acupuncture (both were sham
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With anything in life there can be roadblocks! Whether it’s your progression at work to the dizzy heights you believe you are entitled to; whether it’s trying to enter the housing market or simply making ends meet when you have. But within health management, there can be many roadblocks to success and recovery from all conditions in my area of interest
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Because I got sick of reading newspapers about 5 weeks before the 7th September 2013 and because I was also very busy around that time and I was often throwing them out (even without unwrapping the plastic), I cancelled the paper. I sort of miss it at times – on the weekend, to read the
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Imagine if there was a measles epidemic that nobody knew about? There would be an outcry once the Courier Mail found out about it. Journalists, the public, the Opposition would be baying for blood. Who is responsible for suppressing the information, the statistics, the preventative measures, the answers to this epidemic? Why hasn’t it been
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I have included a link today to a Radio National Life Matters show on a silent epidemic-Persistent Pelvic Pain. I was alerted to this wonderful discussion by my husband (an avid Life Matters listener) as I was working with patients at the time of the show and have only just this morning listened to the
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Recently my lovely, wise GP and I were having a chat about catastrophising. We are all capable of catastrophising. I see the tendency in many pain patients and those suffering with bladder urgency. It’s easy to do when you are anxious as to whether you are going to cope with a function or outing when
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