Today three things happened which made me think: ” What is wrong with the world?” Firstly I treated a lovely lady who had extremely severe incontinence, just continual leakage when in the upright position- it made me think ……leakage just like when you have a fistula- like I’ve written about with Dr Hannah Krause and Professor Judith Goh and […]
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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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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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Over the past year I have talked alot about incontinence, but not really ever touched on a type of incontinence that is going to become increasingly prevalent as our aging population explodes in the next few decades. Functional incontinence occurs when problems getting to the toilet are caused by environmental, physical or mental difficulties. For Alzheimer’s
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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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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
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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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Having written blogs on Change and Confidence, today I have decided to write about Acceptance. I think, as you can see from some of the stories that I have written about in my blogs, that there are many unhappy ladies dealing with these issues of prolapse, incontinence – both urinary and faecal – frequency, urgency,
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
We seemed to have been bombarded- for what seems like an eternity, but in fact has been only five days- with 24/7 politics…….’She did this, he said that, he is on her side and she refuses to have a bar of him and so on. (Substitute various players from the political soap opera that has been.) There