The new editions of my books – Pelvic Floor Recovery: Physiotherapy for Gynaecological Repair Surgery and Pelvic Floor Essentials – have arrived. Well that actually is OLD news- but when I realized it had been weeks since I had posted a blog, because life has been taken to another level of busy/chaos lately – I went looking […]
The new editions of the Pelvic Floor Recovery series have arrived! Read More »
You know from previous patient focused blogs how articulate my patients have been when writing their contributions – and today is no exception. This lady (we will know her as Mrs L) was pretty distressed when I first saw her- and for a typical reason. She had committed to extensive gynae surgery to help prolapse and urinary incontinence but when
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As you all know I am very active on Twitter and Facebook – but in a (mostly) professional way with respect to my career, my passion, my children would say …my obsession – of course it’s the pelvic floor. And we have a new group on Facebook which is for us Physios who are afflicted with
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I wrote the following blog around the time of our last fund raising Trivial Pursuit night in 2013 – organized to help raise funds for the wonderful work that Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause perform in Africa. We have just had a great lecture at our CFA State conference at The Pullman (14/3/14) from Dr Judith Goh on the
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The best thing about writing a blog is the ability to reach women all around the world and have a chat about their bladders, bowels or prolapse. I also get many email enquiries about problems following their gynae repair surgery. Recently a lovely lady – we’ll call her Mrs L wrote asking a question in
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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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Over the years I have received many gorgeous but somewhat self-indulgent presents for Mothers Day – pedicures, vouchers for hair do’s, a gorgeous watch – but this year I am going to make a suggestion to all daughters ( and sons) out there on the wide world web to do their Mum’s a favour and
The very last lecture at the recent CFA Conference in Melbourne was a sobering one from Assoc Prof Christopher Maher reporting on a recent Food and Drug Administration Alert – the American equivalent of our Australian TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) – with regard to the use of vaginal mesh for prolapse. Chris very clearly set out