The dos and don’ts of correctly contracting your pelvic floor muscles when first learning them: Do not use your inner thigh muscles. Do not tilt your pelvis. Do not clench your buttocks. Do not strongly contract your abdominal muscles. Do not hold your breath. Do not flare your ribs. Do not bear down. […]
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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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Ladies playing Walking Netball Recently I had a patient who, when I asked about her exercise that she is currently doing or would like to do, told me about Walking Netball!?! Now we are a netball family and in all my years sitting around netball courts, I have never heard about it. I actually couldn’t
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If you follow my blog, you have heard the sad tale about me making the hard decision to close my pelvic floor inspired exercise studio (at Gladstone Road, Highgate Hill) at the end of 2018. This came about because in November 2017, there was a decree from the Australian Government that a number of complementary medicine
Who are those two cutie-pies with me? (No Dior for me, that’s my mother’s top I’ve borrowed!) I feel so sorry for Meghan at this stage of her pregnancy. I remember that in the last few weeks of my pregnancies, I was definitely not up for one or two photos of me and my
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There’s a certain amount of comfort around traditions. They build expectations; they feel comfortable; and most importantly enable a culture to build and thrive. In Australia we have the Boxing Day Test, the Sydney Fireworks display broadcast on TV and our most favourite ones of watching Chevy Chase in the movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
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Pair of oldies (over 60s) at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Australia’s population is ageing. There is an explosion of people aged over 60 about to present itself to the health care system of Australia. The general consensus if you ask the much older population (my mother, her friends and relatives) is that the health care system
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Today’s blog has been written by one of my physios Alexandra (Alex) Schafer who not only sees our pelvic health patients and musculo-skeletal patients but also teaches at my studio- Studio194. Even though we are closing the studio at the end of the year, Alex, Megan, Martine and Jane will still be conducting one-on-ones, two-on-ones
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I saw a delightful patient today who came in full of apologies for not adhering to all the strategies we mapped out at our first meeting a month ago. Now I am totally understanding about time pressures, changes in circumstance, things that unexpectedly crop up to throw a spanner in the works of life. It
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It has been a sad couple of weeks for me making some hard decisions- but that is life – it is full of hard decisions at times. I have included below an email that I had to send to all our lovely clients at Studio 194 – the studio I created over 3 years ago
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