In September, I went to the beautiful New Zealand to present at a Colorectal workshop in Auckland and not knowing the audience at all, and them not knowing me, I wanted to engage early on with them and set the scene – that I am passionate about my profession of physiotherapy for pelvic floor dysfunction, […]
I saw a patient yesterday who had had a repair 6 weeks ago and was really happy with how everything was going. Things were great – no leakage, no lump, defaecation easier and she had come to me to find out about exercise in the future. But things were so good she felt energised like
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What is Levator Avulsion? In 2007, quite a few years ago now, I had an ‘Oh My God’ moment in a lecture at an AGES conference (Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society). Professor Peter Dietz, a Sydney Urogynaecologist, was revealing to the attentive audience of doctors, physiotherapists and nurses that muscle weakness which had been
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Recently my lovely, wise GP and I were having a chat about catastrophising. We are all capable of catastrophising. I see the tendency in many pain patients and those suffering with bladder urgency. It’s easy to do when you are anxious as to whether you are going to cope with a function or outing when
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This week’s edition of the Sunday Mail Body and Soul supplement on Baby had lots of interesting articles on ‘Budget tips for new mums’, ‘How to face your birth fears’ and ‘Labour tips for Dads’, but I would also like to add in the very important subject of the pelvic floor. Damien Kelly mentioned that an exercise called the ‘Clams‘
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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 am very privileged to have an article today on my blog written by a great Physio, a wonderful advocate for women and my lovely friend Michelle Kenway, author of Inside Out, a book comprehensively outlining the Do’s and Don’ts of exercising and general fitness for women with pelvic floor issues. I always get asked
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