I love Women’s Health Over the years I had seen thousands of girls and women with their pelvic health issues, but the demand was outstripping my capacity to see everyone who wanted to be seen. So in 2015, when driving up a different street to my usual route and saw an interesting shop for sale, […]
Women’s Health and Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) in 2025 Read More »
Grief is something we all have to deal with at different times of our lives. Sometimes it starts with a pet dying or of course worse, a grandfather. If we are young, it’s difficult to understand what has happened and the people around us often have trouble talking about death and dying. But grief can
Some strategies to help deal with grief Read More »
We take continence for granted until we don’t have it any more. Many people don’t even know what we mean by the word ‘continence’. I was reminded of this the other day when I went into a restaurant and I asked could we hire their restaurant for a meeting for the Continence Foundation of Australia
Continence – no its not two very large areas of land Read More »
In November 2017, there was a decree from the Australian Government that a number of complementary medicine categories would no longer be able to be covered by the Private Health Insurance companies. This is what the Government has decided as part of the linked advice above. “Rules will be made to remove natural therapies from
Apparently preventative medicine is a waste of money? Read More »
Marzena showing us the wonderful balance poses in yoga Today Megan had some time between classes so she whipped me up a blog and chose to talk about the importance of balance. Funnily enough in yoga tonight Marzena got us doing lots of balance poses in our yoga class (and I just had to
It’s all a matter of #balance Read More »
As always when I go to these fabulous courses, like the Norman Doidge The Power of Thought: Updates in Brain Plasticity, the hurly-burly of work and other commitments prevents me from doing as much writing as I would like about the nuggets or pearls of information I am able to glean from attending the course.
Dementia Prevention: Part Two Read More »
Buy Green Vanilla Tea This week’s blog is a sad one. It’s talking about a problem which is likely to touch all our lives in some way. We will all know a family who has had to deal with the dementia diagnosis or will be right now in the thick of the dementia disruptor, with
Dementia – the Green Goblin Read More »
Today’s blog is from a guest blogger Dr Lydia Pitcher. Lydia is a Haematologist/Oncologist with BloodCare and works at ICON Cancer Care, Noosa and SCHOC Buderim and we have had many discussions about the importance of basic blood care especially in Women’s Health and dementia assessment and management. Lydia continues to patiently answer all my questions.
Road Map to Women’s Health – The ABCD of Good Blood Read More »
Paul McCartney (circa 1969) and the Beatles on the cover of my Abbey Road album. Paul McCartney at 75 years of age still beltin’ out a tune Photo Courtesy of Marika Hart, Perth 2017 Start moving, keep moving, stay moving! Make it your mantra for 2018. (Yes I know it’s March not January but who
#IWD International Women\’s Day Exercise series: Pilates Read More »
It’s that time of the year again when the world celebrates World Continence Awareness Week. ‘Celebrates’ may sound like an unusual word to use when talking about issues such as urinary and faecal incontinence, but it is important to confidently and loudly give a shout out about the conservative strategies to treat or manage the
World Continence Week: Incontinence is no Laughing Matter Read More »