Knowing where the next toilet is hiding is the bane of your life if you have an overactive bladder. Especially in our new #Coronvirus life where many public toilets are locked off to the general public – women and men must be really struggling. I was reminded of this when we went for […]
An Overactive Bladder: Urinary frequency, urgency and urge incontinence Read More »
Week Six of Telehealth consultations. This is an update for the future to look back on and reflect on these unusual times. Thursday 7th May, 2020 had some highs and lows. After 6 weeks of waiting we received our Job Keeper payments. This is a giant high for Bob and myself after weeks of
Six Weeks of Telehealth: Update for posterity! Read More »
I have been so busy responding to the Coronavirus crisis and the effect on my practice – the changeover to Telehealth and all the ramifications of such tumultuous times- that I completely have had no time to write a blog for weeks now. I love writing blogs and sometimes will shirk my pressing ‘to-do’ list
The message should be clear! #stayathome!! But it’s not clear. It’s contorted. If you had a wedding planned – tell the guests to come in the #activewear and you can have double the number (10 not 5). Just tell them there’ll be some burpees thrown in – possibly more effective after the sculling of the
#Stayathome #FFS #sorrynotsorryforswearywords: #newCoronalife Read More »
Most of what I do every day relies on restoring trust to our patients’ bodies. Trust that their bladder will hold and not let them down at the back door or in the (extremely) long queue at the checkout (these crazy COVID19 days). Trust that they can hold their gas when they get into a
Restoring trust in your pelvic health #newCoronalife Read More »
International Women’s Day 2020 Post All my physiotherapists at different times have been asked to contribute to my blog by writing an article on some aspect of pelvic floor dysfunction for me. Today is the turn of my newest staff member, Amanda Waldock. Amanda is settling in beautifully at my practice after coming back from
Recognising that sexual intimacy is an important part of faith for women Read More »
You may remember that when we had the Pain and Relaxation classes at the studio, I started to produce some Nuggets of information for our clients (the Nuggets name dutifully ripped of from the magnificent Lorimer Moseley and Dave Butler of Explain Pain fame). It started as short one page handouts about persistent pain management
Procrastination (the art of avoiding the must do tasks) Read More »
Aussie Bushfires, 2019/2020 There are many people directly involved or affected with this current Australian fire catastrophe. Some are very busy fighting the fires, organizing the firefighters, coordinating the helicopters and planes, saving lives, tending to the sick and burnt, feeding the hungry and rallying the troops. But there are now around 25 million people
Ladies playing Walking Netball Recently I had a patient who, when I asked about her exercise that she is currently doing or would like to do, told me about Walking Netball!?! Now we are a netball family and in all my years sitting around netball courts, I have never heard about it. I actually couldn’t
Here’s a great pelvic floor friendly exercise: Walking netball? Yes really! Read More »
Position for voiding from Pelvic Floor Essentials (2022) by Sue Croft Non-obstructive urinary retention (NOUR), when it doesn’t respond simply to positional management (see above) and complete abdominal and pelvic floor relaxation can be frustrating for therapists to treat and patients to live with, as it can often mean recurrent urinary tract infections and problematic
TTNS for urinary retention (NOUR): A Case Report Read More »