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‘Optimising Surgical Outcomes’. The Physiotherapy Perspective.

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Gynaecological repair surgery is expensive when considering the cost of the operation, time off work and any health professional appointments before and after the operation. There are financial, physical and mental health costs to the patient if the surgery fails. Routine pre, peri and post operative physiotherapy helps to achieve the best outcome for the patient through a personalised medicine approach.

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Physiotherapy for the LBGTQIA+ Community

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Today’s blog has been written by my newest physiotherapist, Samantha Richter who has trained firstly as sonographer, then an osteopath and finally a Doctor of Physiotherapy specialising in pelvic health. Samantha relocated from Darwin at the end of last year, but is actually a Brisbane girl originally. She has settled into our practice beautifully and

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An observation about gender and prolapse management

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  As you know I regularly ask patients to write blogs for me about their particular journey with their pelvic floor dysfunction. And many times the resulting blog that they send me is articulate and resonates with me on many levels. Well today’s blog is no different. After five turbulant weeks in Australia, when women

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Prostatectomy: PF muscle training programme pre-operatively

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This is taken directly from The Prostate Foundation of Australia (with permission from Dr Joanne Milios). It is entitled: “A pelvic floor exercise program starting before prostate surgery improves the recovery of urinary continence” Dec 2019. It has been written by Wendy Winnall, a scientific writer for PCFA to summarise the excellent research by Jo

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LRSM: The new acronym for post-op gynaecological and colorectal repair surgery management

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Today’s blog is Number 300. I started my blog back in 2011 inspired by my son who was in first year architecture and had to do a blog as a part of his uni course. It’s hard to believe today, that I didn’t even know what a blog was back in 2011, considering they are

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Childbirth issues- Informed Consent, Forceps and Caesareans.

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Amy being interviewed for ABC TV There has been some heated debate recently about a headline grab that followed an interview of Amy Dawes, co-founder of The Australasian Birth Trauma Association (See link to the website here.) by ABC News. By her own admission, Amy is regretful that she answered yes when asked does she think that

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