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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My two beautiful grandchildren Thursday is grandchildren day. I love Thursdays because I get to chill out with a four year old and sometimes a six year old (and my husband Bob), watch my grandsons play, look at the birds, the plants and nature in general and relax from the hectic pace of our clinic.
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As you know I regularly ask patients to write blogs for me about their particular journey with their pelvic floor dysfunction. And many times the resulting blog that they send me is articulate and resonates with me on many levels. Well today’s blog is no different. After five turbulant weeks in Australia, when women
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What a miserable past few weeks women (and caring men, our teenagers and children) have had to endure in the lead up to International Women’s Day 2021. Instead of wondering what to write about – which remarkable women to profile, highlight, extol – I’ve had to endure listening to shocking tales of disrespect and violence
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Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause helping fistula patients in Africa Back in 2017 as one of my New Year’s pledges I decided to ask my family and friends to give a donation to HADA -the organisation which fund-raises for the fistula and prolapse repair work that Professor Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause
The Overactive Bladder can be the bain of a woman’s existence. It can limit social activities, restrict distances that women can walk, therefore their exercise frequency and fitness is affected and make women feel anxious, therefore affecting their mental health. As with prolapse and pessaries, men’s health and pelvic pain, I have collated some blogs
Pelvic Health in Regional and Rural Queensland Small Business Grant Win: Extending the scope of Telehealth in rural and regional Queensland Today (8th September) is World Physiotherapy Day, plonked right in the middle of Women’s Health Week and it is a good time to chat about an exciting new project that we have undertaken. In
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A post for Women’s Week and World Physiotherapy Day Small Business Grant Win: Extending the scope of Telehealth in rural and regional Queensland Today (8th September) is World Physiotherapy Day, plonked right in the middle of Women’s Health Week and it is a good time to chat about an exciting new project that we have
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This is a CPOP pessary – you can read about its design and how it came about here in this earlier blog. It’s a great pessary which continues to surprise me because sometimes it works when you never think it will on quite significant prolapses. As you can see it’s a different shape and that
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Drone photo Sunshine Beach Looking back over 2020, one of the important life lessons is the value of getting away from work and routine to replenish the spirit – even if it’s for a very short time. Today, I am writing this Christmas blog from the beach, making sure I follow through with my own
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