I have just finished reading one of those books everyone should read in their lifetime. Of course it will make you feel fantastically inadequate and pathetic when you whinge about your life and what isn’t quite right about it, but a book that basically should be compulsory reading for everyone. It’s called ‘A Hospital by […]
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Well it’s Christmas and whilst it’s a time when we yearn for happiness and a jolly season, we all know that in the real world, that sometimes just doesn’t happen. Terrible things occur, like the shocking event in America, which was breath-taking in its horror. We lose loved ones to illness and are often stressed with
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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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For what seems like the 945th time in my life I am formally doing something about my weight. Why you ask am I boring you with this? Because I am using my blog to add to my accountability regarding this latest attempt. For the first time ever I am seeking help from a qualified (university trained)
This week has been incredibly busy with final preparations for our World Continence Awareness Week forum The 4 Authors: The Perfect Ingredients to Improve Your Bottom Line to be held on Thursday 28th June,2012. Between reading and sending about 721 emails, treating patients, proofreading my second book and preparing a lecture for an International Conference
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As many of you are aware I am on Twitter and regularly tweet about articles and comment on other Pelvic Floor Physios’ comments and blogs. In fact, since my PR/Melbourne daughter Katie put me on Twitter last September, a couple of micro-seconds after I picked up my new iPhone, I have really taken to it.Before
I wrote about World Continence Awareness Week back in early February and suddenly I’ve blinked and here it is June and nearly on the eve of this major event in our calendar. This year the Queensland Branch have organized a special night where four Queensland authors of books related to better bladder and bowel management
World Continence Awareness Week Special Event Read More »
Boy that’s a big title for a blog. It wasn’t what I was going to write about this week but it’s very important to get this message out urgently and to our politicians. When economic times are tough it’s pretty easy to look at places to save money in areas that seem superfluous….such as The
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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
Guest Blogger: Michelle Kenway on Your Pelvic Floor and Running Read More »
To everyone out there – I hope your week has been a bit less eventful than mine. It started on Monday when my Twitter account got hacked. Memo to all: Do not open a blog post that says ‘Have you heard the bad rumours about you?’ A lot of other people (who unfortunately got hacked