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
Vaginal Prolapse
Channel 7, House of Wellness
Incontinence in younger people
Channel 7, House of wellness
Leaking with Excercise
'Sporty' on ABC
World Continence Week
Channel 7, The Morning Show
How to prevent and treat prolapse
Channel 7, The Morning Show
Leaking while exercising and pelvic floor muscles
Channel 7 Morning Show
Prostate Cancer Surgery And Pelvic Floor Exercises
Continence Foundation of Australia
Healthy Pelvic Floor Habits / Incontinence
Channel 7 Morning Show
Talking About The Pelvic Floor
Radio 774, Libbi Gorr program
Presentations
2021
July 2021 | Prostatectomy and Supporting Continence, Continence Foundation of Australia World Continence Week Webinar
June 2021 | Male Continence and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2021 | Outcome Measures, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2021 | Adherence and Motivation, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
March 2021 | Assessment & Management of Sexual Pain; A Physiotherapy Perspective, Let's Talk About Sex Course, Monash University Obstetrics & Gynecology Department
March 2021 | Pelvic Floor Education Day, Epworth
March 2021 | Pelvic Health - Lets Talk About The Things We Don't Talk About!, St Kevin's Women's Football Club
2020
November 2020 | Master your Women’s Health with Dr Desiree Yap, Women’s Section of Camberwell Hockey Club, live webinar.
October 2020 | Persistent Pelvic Pain; presentation and guest panellist at two sessions, Project ECHO on persistent pain, Western Victoria Primary Health Network
October 2020 | The Pelvic Floor & More: Physiotherapy for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Complete Sports Care & SportsFit Physio & Health Education Evenings
September 2020 | The Role of the Physiotherapist in Recurrent UTI's, GP Education Evening
August 2020 | What makes persistent pelvic pain so complex? Epworth Women's Health Live Webinar
July 2020 | A psychologically informed approach to managing overactive bladder / painful bladder syndrome revealed a complex case, Australian College of Physiotherapists & Sydney Specialist Physiotherapy Education Masterclass E-symposium
February 2020 | Sexual pain from a physiotherapy perspective, Monash University ‘Let's Talk About Sex: Sexuality and Sexual Difficulties’ Course
2019
November 2019 | Perineal Trauma, Australasian Birth Trauma Association peer mentor training day
November 2019 | Male Sexual Pain, Pelvic Pain Victoria Weekend Symposium
October 2019 | Explain Pelvic Pain; 10 target concepts from Explain Pain Supercharged applied to pelvic pain cases (Conference Workshop), Australian Physiotherapy Association Transform Conference, Adelaide
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
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
Articles
2019
Reconsideration of pelvic floor muscle training to prevent and treat incontinence after radical prostatectomy
Hodges et al., Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations, Dec 2019
2018
Interview with Bev Killick about the Laugh Without Leaking campaign
Mamamia website, June 2018
Top Quality Physiotherapy Practice - accreditation
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
