Amy Dawes and her daughter This week has seen the inaugural Birth Trauma Awareness Week and big congrats to Amy Dawes and the crew at www.birthtrauma.org.au for their amazing public awareness campaign which has snared interest from The Project and the ABC National News and a fantastic article from feminist and writer Clementine Ford. […]
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As always when I go to these fabulous courses, like the Norman Doidge The Power of Thought: Updates in Brain Plasticity, the hurly-burly of work and other commitments prevents me from doing as much writing as I would like about the nuggets or pearls of information I am able to glean from attending the course.
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CPOP pessary At the beginning of this year I got to trial some new pessaries. As you know I am a bit of a fan of pessaries as a conservative approach to managing pelvic organ prolapse. I have written many blogs on them – if you go to the top panel there is a prolapse
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I want to talk about fairness – or the lack of it. My husband went to the dentist recently and had his six monthly check up. It took 30 minutes. He had an examination (it has a separate code), a clean (it has a separate code), a filling (it has a separate code) and the
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Today’s blog is from a guest blogger Dr Lydia Pitcher. Lydia is a Haematologist/Oncologist with BloodCare and works at ICON Cancer Care, Noosa and SCHOC Buderim and we have had many discussions about the importance of basic blood care especially in Women’s Health and dementia assessment and management. Lydia continues to patiently answer all my questions.
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Who does that to their employees? A few days before IWD say: “Can you write a paragraph on exercise for IWD?” To Megan, Jane, Alex, Marzena, Martine and Alison – I am sorry. But the advantage of dropping this short writing task on them so suddenly is they just write from their heart and don’t overthink
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Today’s blog has been written by Alexandra Schafer – Alex – another fabulous pelvic health physios who has worked for me. She also translated Pelvic Floor Recovery surgical book into German for me. It is called Beckenbodenrehabilitation. She has since returned to Germany and has a trhiving practice in Germany. She has shared her story
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The next blog in my exercise series in the lead up to #IWD (International Women’s Day) on Thursday 8th March is on running and who better to write it than Jane Cannan, one of my fantastic physios, who herself is a (some would say) fanatical runner. A couple of years ago, Jane was all ears
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Paul McCartney (circa 1969) and the Beatles on the cover of my Abbey Road album. Paul McCartney at 75 years of age still beltin’ out a tune Photo Courtesy of Marika Hart, Perth 2017 Start moving, keep moving, stay moving! Make it your mantra for 2018. (Yes I know it’s March not January but who
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Part of my Xmas present from my kids While most people may think the most important date in February is Valentines Day (February 14th), February is actually Bowel Awareness Month and I have a wonderful story to relate to you about a fantastic screening programme that is here in Australia – that saves lives.
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