I was reading the Courier Mail the other day and saw a quote from Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. My knee jerk reaction was to write this quick Facebook entry: Now that may well be important for inventors, scientists or physicists when trying to solve important theories and create amazing new discoveries or devices. […]
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What do I mean by Pelvic Floor Friendly Exercise Tonight I was sending an email to the owner of my gym to draw him into the Pelvic Floor friendly exercising web and was trawling through all my blogs to link him in to one that succinctly summarized all the key points….and I realized there wasn’t
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Over the last two years of my son Micheal’s Architecture degree he has learnt the guitar – self taught – and has become rather good. It’s really quite pleasant being serenaded day and night with renditions of the Beatles, Queen and Jimmy plus many others. His interest in all things guitar led us to Easts Leagues Club last night to catch up with
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Don’t give up – a story I was reading a funny yet sad blog by @Joe Hildebrand on his attempt to purchase a house in Sydney which resonated hugely with me, as my daughter @croftyk7 too, is on the treadmill of trying to buy her first house in Melbourne. It appears you have to be a zillionaire
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There has been more and more talk about how important exercise is. Now I have blogged at length about the importance of pelvic floor exercises – the bread and butter of a pelvic floor physiotherapist – but as you can see we do far more than teach Kegal exercises these days! But exercise is far
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Sometimes this is what patients feel like when confronted with the changes to behavior necessary to improve their pelvic floor problems or make a decision regarding surgery or no surgery – backed into a corner with nowhere to go. I’ve spoken about the difficulties patients have when hearing that changing to decaffeinated tea and coffee
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I think what distinguishes the frustration patients find with pelvic floor dysfunction as opposed to other musculo-skeletal conditions is the ongoing nature of the commitment to treatment and rehabilitation required when treating their problem. The fact is, that all the strategies taught to you by your Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, have to be continued every day
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As Easter is approaching, for the first time in my life it isn’t chocolate I’m hanging out for. What I am absolutely dying for are some ‘downtime days’. It has been sooooo busy lately that now I feel like I need 2 or 3 days no one else knows about, not just one per week
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Well on this special day for women, I thought I’d write a blog about a problem that women mostly keep quiet about- ‘Prolapse’. I had a patient recently who had had significant improvement with the FEELING and LOOK of her prolapse and was so excited that she would be able to postpone surgery for a
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An abstract recently presented at the International Continence Society Conference in Glasgow (September, 2011) won the Prize Award of Best Clinical Abstract. Well respected Melbourne physiotherapist Dr Helena Frawley, from the University of Melbourne was a co-author on this paper. The article titled “A multi-centre randomized controlled trial of a pelvic floor muscle training intervention for
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