As you are aware there have been some new staff members at Sue croft Physiotherapy and one of the girls, Alex, is trained in lymphoedema management. I asked her to write me a blog to let you know what lymphoedema is and how to manage it. Lympha-what? Lymphoedema is the swelling that occurs when excessive […]
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October 11 2017 is International Day of the Girl. This is a United Nations initiative with the theme being: ‘EmPOWER Girls: Before, during and after crises’. Throughout 2017 there has been growing conflict, instability and inequality, with 128.6 million people this year expected to need humanitarian assistance due to security threats, climate change and poverty.
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Forty years ago Blondie’s first ever hit, “In The Flesh”, reached number two on the Australian Singles charts after it was played by mistake (instead of “X-Offender”) on the music show “Countdown” in 1977. (Well done Molly!) Tonight on the 7.30 Report there was an interview with Blondie, as she is touring Australia at present. She
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Yet another gem from the brilliant Albert Einstein If I can’t explain the complexities of bladder, bowel, pain science and pelvic floor dysfunction simply to patients then basically I haven’t done my job very well. One of my sayings when doing talks to health professionals and the public is: “What we teach is science-based but it’s
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What a bonanza! Two incredible things like that overlapping at the same time. (God I used to love that show!) Now it’s very late at night and of course I forgot this incredible thing of having this special day World Physiotherapist Day September 8th, 2015 plonked straight in the middle of Women’s Health Week, until cleaning
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When you think about a pelvic floor physiotherapist, the first thing most people think of is that WH physios teach pelvic floor exercises and quite often, even amongst a few doctors, that’s ALL we teach patients. But as you have read from many of my blogs, the treatment strategies involved for stress urinary incontinence, the overactive
Managing pelvic floor dysfunction: It’s like a big apple pie! Read More »
It’s a very fulfilling job I have – every day I get to explain some pretty simple strategies to my patients which IF they implement them (for every damn day for the rest of their lives ….) can mostly transform their life from one of anxiety and quite a high level of bother to one of managing their
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Often I get an idea for a blog when consulting with a patient – a reaction to something they have said and I think: ‘You know that’s a really important message – I must write a blog about that!’ And so I jot the thought on a post-it note and it joins the pile of
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Well it seems like forever since I’ve written a blog – it has been ssssoooo busy….with patients, with writing and presentIng a talk on physiotherapy management of pain for the IUGA conference, and finishing and publishing my second book. Yes! Pelvic Floor Recovery Essentials was released on Monday. I had so many requests from patients to do this
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Today I saw two patients who have sort of encapsulated everything I wanted to get across when I wrote this blog on Change back in January. I have changed the first patient’s name for the obvious reasons. The second lady has consented to using her real name. The first lady, Nancy, had a serious urethral sphincter