Thank you! Thank you to everyone for their kind messages and heartfelt congratulations on my recent Order of Australia Medal (OAM). To say I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with your generous thoughts and good wishes is an understatement. It is gratifying that in these hectic times people have taken the time to send personal messages and […]
Mum and me on her 97th birthday As a joke…. for many, many years in June and January, my mum has texted me to say “Well we haven’t made the awards honours list yet again.” Well Mum…… 2023 has started in a very surprising way. After being a physiotherapist for 46 years, I have very
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My mum (97 and proud of it) and my sister-in-law – both ageing with grace and beautiful smiles Ageing – the process is as inevitable as the sun rising and setting every day As sure as the sun rises and sets every day our bodies are going to continually change as the years click over.
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Who doesn’t love Women! Here’s a bunch of savvy ones I love. Here we are already again in September and its another Women’s Health Week. This year is certainly hurtling towards Christmas (as evidenced by Target displaying their range of Christmas trees – which is so wrong by the way!) Xmas trees for sale Target
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New trends in Pelvic Health Physiotherapy My latest blog on Kegels or Pelvic Floor Exercises generated many conversations in our professional Facebook pages – some agreeing with what I said and others definitely having an alternate view. But debate and discussion is always productive and all the comments have been respectful so I thought I
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Kegels or Pelvic Floor Muscle Training (PFMT) There has been some recent bagging of Kegels (aka pelvic floor exercises) on Instagram and other important sources of life information and seeing as Influencers only need a good PR team and some sassy photos to extend their reach into the millions, I thought I’d post a very
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Overactive Bladder This is not so much a blog about how to treat an overactive bladder, as a short quick blog to alert people using anticholinergic and antimuscarinic medications for OAB to discuss their continued use with your GP or specialist. The role of the adult bladder is to store urine to around 350 to
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Sexual Dysfunction Today I am posting two book reviews done for me by one of my valued colleagues Megan Bergman. Megan is one of the fantastic pelvic health physiotherapists at my practice who has been doing some reading of two new books on sexuality. It is opportune that these books have arrived into the pelvic
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I will be still working (I hope) in 2030, but maybe I won’t. But I know that there will be younger pelvic health physios carrying the baton for conservative management of pelvic floor dysfunction. Some will be private, but some will be in the public sector. I would like to present you with a future
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Or as my son’s Mother’s Day card to me last year said: “Happy Squeezed out of your Vagina Day” My son in ‘my tummy’ 30 years ago I laughed out loud when he gave me this card last May and it joined my collection of funny Pelvic Health cards on the wall in my treatment
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