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  1. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio SUE CROFT

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio SUE CROFT

    What is your current position?

    Owner my own practice Sue Croft Physiotherapist

    What led you into women's health physio?

    I was doing a locum at QE2 Hospital for 4 hours per week about 24 years ago and the Women’s Health specialist (Margie Carroll) left and I was asked if I would like to take on the role. I had had my children and had an interest in Women’s Health, as I had taken ante-natal classes for many years at the Mater, so I said yes! I

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  2. Get to know your women's health physio...A few moments with Natalie McConochie

    Get to know your women's health physio...A few moments with Natalie McConochie

    A FEW MOMENTS WITH Natalie McConochie

    What is your current position?

    My current position is a physiotherapist at Macquarie Women’s Health in Dubbo NSW. It is a private practise with midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists, reception and admin staff and then myself.

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  3. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio Taryn Watson

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio Taryn Watson

    What is your current position?

    Senior Women’s Health & Continence Physiotherapist for Lifecare, Perth
    Clinical Pilates Instructor at Lifecare
    Director and Instructor for FitRight

    What led you into women's health physio?

    I started my physiotherapy career with Lifecare eight years ago, as a new graduate at Southcare, St John of God Murdoch. A large part of my role in the first year turned out to be working on the maternity ward there, St Mary’s, and I absolutely fell in love with working with women at such a beautiful time in their lives.

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  4. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LORI FORNER

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LORI FORNER

    What is your current position/s?

    Private practice ,small business owner/physiotherapist working mainly with women’s pelvic health.
    Physiotherapist working at a private practice obstetric centre once/week, also teaching prenatal pilates

    What led you into women's health physio?

    Teaching pregnancy and post-natal pilates years ago highlighted the lack of evidence and information regarding women’s health issues.

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  5. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio ALYSSA TAIT

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio ALYSSA TAIT

    A FEW MOMENTS WITH Alyssa Tait

    What is your current position?

    Physiotherapist and Owner of Equilibria Physiotherapy & Nutrition

    What led you into women's health physio?

    An obsession with my bladder as a child. A desire to help women who are dealing with the most awkward, icky, embarrassing problems. A desire to be the clinician that I would have wanted to see.

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  6. Feel the Need, the Need for Speed?

    I feel the need the need for speed

    Do you feel the need, the need for speed when getting to the toilet to pee?

    An urgent need to get to the loo is a common thing and often mistakenly called a "weak bladder" and excuses are made  'I have been like this since I was a child'  or 'it is only since I had the kids'

    There is no such thing as a weak bladder. There are weak pelvic floor muscles, there is stretched fascial tissue, there is a low compliant bladder (the muscular wall of the bladder is stiff and won't stretch well - like blowing up a balloon for the first time), there is an overactive detrusor ( bladder wall muscle which contracts when it shouldn't)  but you don't have a weak bladder - it is the support and control mechanisms that are not working properly.

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  7. When is a Leak Not a Leak? When it is a leek!

    When is a leak not a leak? When it is a leek!

    WHEN IS A LEAK NOT A LEAK?

    The short answer is never but you would be forgiven for thinking that little leaks or "LBL 's" are not really leaks, going by the media and advertising reports we have been bombarded with of late.
    There have been some very high profile campaigns excusing you from worrying about those embarrassing little leaks and freeing you up to just wear a pad and forget it.

    Well you may be able to do that....at first. But that annoying little leak will soon become a gush or a whole bladder full.

    You will start to go just in case in order to keep your bladder empty - so it can't leak and let you down - and this will lead to a smaller bladder capacity
    (can't hold as much), frequency and urgency which can lead to further leaks and a whole big mess.

    So then you might be scared to go out, stop going to the gym or be the one at the back of the class so you can run out unnoticed to go to the loo halfway through the star jumps and all of

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  8. Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LISA YATES

    Get To Know Your Women's Health Physio LISA YATES

    What is your current position?

    Private practice physiotherapist at: Lisa Yates – Continence & Women’s health Physiotherapy

    What led you into women's health physio?

    Even as an undergraduate physiotherapy student I was really interested in Women’s health and Obstetrics.  In 1998 I did an elective placement at the Royal Women’s hospital in Melbourne – which I absolutely loved.  I was so taken with it that I even considered transferring to Medicine to become an Obstetrician.

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  9. IT’S ALL IN THE CO-ORDINATION

    IT’S ALL IN THE CO-ORDINATION

    Last time we talked about the importance of the pelvic floor muscles and their role in supporting the pelvic organs and helping to prevent or reduce pelvic organ prolapse.

    This can’t happen without a little help from the pelvic floor’s friends – the other core muscles. “The core” is often quite misunderstood. Physiotherapists often see people who are very sure they are doing the correct action.

    I can do 100 crunches!! how can I be doing it wrong?’ 

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  10. Pelvic Floor and Exercise : Haemorrhoids from the Gym ?

    Pelvic Floor and Exercise : Haemorrhoids from the Gym ?
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