This has been the biggest year for continuing education. From the a 2 day Women’s Health Symposium in Melbourne early in the year, a pessary workshop in May, our national APA conference just held in Brisbane, an Overactive Bladder one day workshop in Brisbane coming up at the end of November – it has been huge. […]
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Its been a week since the APA conference wrapped up and I thought I’d jot down some of the more interesting things to be presented. It was a great three days of Women’s Health topics – raising as many questions as answers were given. Throughout the conference there were some great lectures on chronic pain
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Well it was a busy first day of Women’s Health topics at the APA National Conference. The most compelling information that I became aware of is how well Women’s Health Physiotherapy is performing in the research area. Women’s Health has strong evidence in childbirth and ante-natal care; post mastectomy lymphodema management; osteoporosis; pregnancy related back and pelvic girdle pain and
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Well today I headed down to register at the Australian Physiotherapy Association National conference. It is being held at the Convention Centre in Brisbane and is going to be a wonderful opportunity to hear the latest research happening in all areas of Physiotherapy, but particularly for me, in the area of Continence and Women’s Health. We are privileged to
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The Great Trivia Event of 2011 has come and gone and everyone agreed – it was a wonderful night. The idea was to raise money for the special work that Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause do in Africa for the women who have fistulas and prolapse. The crowd of 150 was a happy, relaxed one –
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Avid Reader Bookshop, West End Riverbend Bookshop, Bulimba Kathleen Noonan had a wonderful article in the Brisbane Courier Mail 21-22 August about books, bookshops and aging – 3 very relevant topics for me at present. She was decrying the demise of the bookshop in an age where Kindles and ipads are replacing a good old-fashioned book. Kathleen
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Professor Judith Goh with some very happy patients Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause, two committed Brisbane Urogynaecologists, headed off for their regular African ‘holiday’ on Wednesday – a safari to look at the big cats you probably think? No! They flew to the Congo to continue their wonderful, selfless work helping the women of
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Its been a busy time since heading off to Hobart for the ‘Explain Pain’ Conference. What a wonderful 2 days – David Butler a physiotherapist , who together with Lorimer Moseley wrote the book ‘Explain Pain’, led us on a journey through the latest neuroscience in treating chronic pain. It was heavy going on the