This is another one of those blogs where my close family members need to look away, if me talking frankly about sex is embarrassing for them. But I want them to remember that the silence around sexual dysfunction is massive and it is important that, as a health professional working with women and men with
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Who are those two cutie-pies with me? (No Dior for me, that’s my mother’s top I’ve borrowed!) I feel so sorry for Meghan at this stage of her pregnancy. I remember that in the last few weeks of my pregnancies, I was definitely not up for one or two photos of me and my
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This year’s theme for International Women’s Day (March 8th) is #BalanceforBetter and I can’t think of a better hashtag to represent what we pelvic health physiotherapists face every day, when in clinic treating patients who have pelvic floor dysfunction. We have to assess the patient and use critical thinking, in conjunction with the patients’ wishes
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We take continence for granted until we don’t have it any more. Many people don’t even know what we mean by the word ‘continence’. I was reminded of this the other day when I went into a restaurant and I asked could we hire their restaurant for a meeting for the Continence Foundation of Australia
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Today’s blog is Number 300. I started my blog back in 2011 inspired by my son who was in first year architecture and had to do a blog as a part of his uni course. It’s hard to believe today, that I didn’t even know what a blog was back in 2011, considering they are
Sunshine Beach, 2018 Christmas for me is the beach, family time, walks on the beach, fishing, reading on the beach, eating a little too much, falling asleep on the beach. You can see there’s a common theme here. And it isn’t the beach. It’s that it’s all about me. It’s a little selfish. Now I
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We Pelvic Health Physios have a number of closed Facebook groups we belong to, where questions are asked and journal articles are disseminated about Women’s Health. This is great for us to network and learn from each other and if there are problematic patients who we are struggling with, we can throw the question
Pair of oldies (over 60s) at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Australia’s population is ageing. There is an explosion of people aged over 60 about to present itself to the health care system of Australia. The general consensus if you ask the much older population (my mother, her friends and relatives) is that the health care system
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This week’s blog is about a new intimate cream called Olive and Bee. It has been on the market for over 2 years but I recently attended a conference in Hobart for the Continence Foundation of Australia and Claire Osterstock, an Adelaide based pelvic health physiotherapist and inventor of Olive and Bee, had a space
An Australian Success story: Olive & Bee – A new intimate cream Read More »
It has been a sad couple of weeks for me making some hard decisions- but that is life – it is full of hard decisions at times. I have included below an email that I had to send to all our lovely clients at Studio 194 – the studio I created over 3 years ago
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