What's New?
At Women’s & Men’s Health Physiotherapy we are involved with many professional associations and advisory boards, present at conferences and courses and contribute to promotion of pelvic health. We also lecture and tutor at The University of Melbourne post graduate course in pelvic floor rehabilitation. Here we share with you some of our recent articles, education & health promotion and the conferences we’ve been presenting at.
Education & Health Promotion
World Continence Week 2017
Channel 7, The Morning Show, June 2017
How to prevent and treat prolapse
Channel 7, The Morning Show, May 2017
Leaking while exercising and pelvic floor muscles
Channel 7 Morning Show, Feb 2017
Prostate Cancer Surgery And Pelvic Floor Exercises
Continence Foundation of Australia, July 2016
Healthy Pelvic Floor Habits / Incontinence
Channel 7 Morning Show, July 2016
Talking About The Pelvic Floor
Radio 774, Libbi Gorr program, May 2017
Articles
2018
Interview with Bev Killick about the Laugh Without Leaking campaign
Mamamia website, June 2018
2017
Living with Incontinence
Choice website, October 2017
Chronic Pelvic Pain in Men
Pg 41-42, InMotion, APA magazine, August 2017
Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction in Chronic Pelvic and Sexual Pain
Pg. 67, O+G Magazine, Winter 2017
2016
Your Pelvic Floor
Weight Watchers magazine, October 2016
My Story Of Overcoming Prostate Cancer
Over Sixty, September 2016
The Role Of Physiotherapy In Post - Prostatectomy Urinary Incontinence
Page 15, Edition 2, The Manual, Cutting Edge Men’s Health Care,
Australian Prostate Cancer Research
The Role Of Physiotherapy In The Management Of Male Chronic Pelvic Pain
Page 17, Edition 4, The Manual, Cutting Edge Men’s Health Care,
Australian Prostate Cancer Research
2015
When Sex Hurts
Good Health, October 2015
Male Incontinence
Fitness Magazine, Spring 2015
A Taboo Subject by Shan Morrison
(article on male urinary incontinence)
Pg 9, Cabrini Foundation 49 Online Magazine
Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia (PPFA)
Shan Morrison, contributing author
Graham Smorgon’s Battle With Pelvic Pain
Financial Review, March 2015
Presentations
2019
August 2019 | The complex plan for the complex patient: How the physio can keep things under control and the patient out of the ED, Australasian
Gynaecological Endoscopy & Surgery (AGES) / World Endometriosis Society (WES) Focus Meeting ‘The Limits and Limitations of Surgery and Endometriosis’
August 2019 | Incontinence Associated with Prostate Cancer (Convening), Asia Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference, Melbourne
June 2019 | Outcome Measures, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2019 | Adherence and Motivation, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2019 | Male Continence and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
May 2019 | Pelvic Health for Women In Sport, Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians
April 2019 | Sexual Pain; A Physiotherapy Perspective, Monash University ‘Let's Talk About Sex: Sexuality and Sexual Difficulties’ Course
April 2019 | Post-Natal Physiotherapy Update; pelvic floor, musculoskeletal, breast and exercise health, Glen Eira Maternal and Child Health Network
March – April 2019 | Looking after your pelvic floor post-pregnancy, Boroondara Maternal and Child Health Centres
2018
November 2018 | Incontinence and Sportswomen, Australian Physiotherapy Association annual breakfast
October 2018 | Physiotherapy and post-prostatectomy incontinence, General Practitioners seminar, Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network
August 2018 | Optimising prostatectomy continence outcomes ; a Physiotherapy Perspective, PPI workshop, 19th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
2017
November 2017 | Understanding multi-symptom presentation in male chronic pelvic pain, Continence Foundation of Australia National Conference
October 2017 | Clinical reasoning in complex pelvic pain, Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference, Women’s, Men’s & Pelvic Health stream
October 2017 | Male Chronic Pelvic Pain and the physiotherapist, Pelvic Pain Victoria Seminar
September 2017 | Biopsychosocial Physiotherapy assessment and management of post-prostatectomy incontinence, PPI Masterclass at 19th Asia- Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
September 2017 | Physiotherapy and the male pelvic floor, Men’s Health General Practitioner Education day, 19th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer conference
September 2017 | Prehabilitation Physiotherapy; preparation enhances positive outcomes, Nursing and Allied Health stream, 19th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
August 2017 | Physiotherapy role in male and female chronic pelvic pain, Caulfield Hospital Chronic Pain Service
July 2017 | Male Chronic Pelvic Pain; Physio role in assessment and management, USANZ Functional Urology Symposium
July 2017 | Factors preventing post-prostatectomy incontinence; physiotherapist viewpoint, USANZ Functional Urology Symposium
