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
Painful Sex
Channel 7, House of Wellness
Raising Awareness about Vaginismus
KIIS FM
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
2023
September 2023 | What’s New In Male Pelvic Health, Continence Foundation of Australia State and Territory Advisory Committees Education Day 2023
August 2023 | Psychological Care For Prostatectomy Patients And Their Loved Ones, 23rd Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
August 2023 | The Evolution Of Prostate Cancer Supportive Care Over The Past 20 Years, 23rd Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
August 2023 | Applying Best Practice To The Clinical Consultation – Tales Of 3 Men, 23rd Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference
July 2023 | The Physiotherapists Role: So Much More Than Muscles, Deep Dive Into Dyspaurenia: A Multidisciplinary Workshop On Sexual Pain, Monash University's Department Of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
July 2023 | A Biopsychosocial Approach To Endometriosis-Associated-Pain, 13th Annual Masterclass E-Symposium Specialist Masterclass, Australia Specialist Physiotherapy Education (ASPE) and The Australian College of Physiotherapists
June 2023 | Persistent Pelvic Pain - Biopsychosocial reframed approach using distress questionnaire, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2023 | Male Persistent Pelvic Pain, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2023 | Male Continence and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2023 | Outcome Measures, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2023 | Adherence and Motivation, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor RehabilitationApril 2023 | A Biopsychosocial Physiotherapy Approach to Endometriosis-Associated Pain, Australian Physiotherapy Association's Victorian Student Branch
March 2023 | Attracting, Promoting and Retaining Women as Physiotherapy Leaders, Victorian Branch of Australian Physiotherapy Association's Leaders Group
March 2023 | Let's Talk Sex, Let's Talk Sex, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University
February 2023 | Why is Pelvic Pain So Complex? Physiotherapy Perspectives On The Top 4 Reasons, Australasian Society for Psychosocial Obsetrics & Gynaecology (ASPOG)
2022
November 2022 | Persistent Pelvic and Sexual Pain, A Biopsychosocial Physio Approach, Australasian College of Nutrional and Environmental Medicine
September 2022 | Transperineal Ultrasound For Physiotherapists, Victorian CFA Physio Group
August 2022 | The Physiotherapists Role: So Much More Than Muscles, Deep Dive Into Dyspareunia, Monash University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department
June 2022 | Persistent Pelvic Pain - Biopsychosocial reframed approach using distress questionnaire, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2022 | Male Persistent Pelvic Pain, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2022 | Male Continence and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2022 | Outcome Measures, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
June 2022 | Adherence and Motivation, Melbourne University Post Graduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
May 2022 | What's New In Male Pelvic Health: Physiotherapy Perspectives, 30th National Consultation on Incontinence, Melbourne
March 2022 | Assessment & Management of Sexual Pain; A Physiotherapy Perspective, Let's Talk About Sex Course, Monash University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department
March 2022 | Pelvic Health: Let's Talk About The Things We Don't Talk About, St Kevin's Women's Football Club
March 2022 | The Pelvic Floor and More: Physiotherapy for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, SIA Medical Centre
February 2022 | The Pelvic Floor and More: Physiotherapy for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, MD Health
2021
December 2021 | Physiotherapy Role in Male Persistent Pelvic Pain, Women's, Men's & Pelvic Health Group of the Australian Physiotherapy Association Lecture Evening
October 2021 | ICS Workshop on Managing OAB and SUI in POP alongside Dr Caroline Dowling, Dr Felicity Gould and Dr Eva Fong, International Continence Society 2021 Melbourne Online
September 2021 | Biopsychosocial reframed in pelvic health, Australian Physiotherapy Association Student Group Education Evening
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 & Gynaecology 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
Presentations Prior to 2020
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
Articles
2023
2022
Interview: The Simple Habit That Can Do So Much For Women's Health: Daily Pelvic Floor Exercises
Women's Agenda
Interview: 3 Ways to strengthen the pelvic floor
House of Wellness
2021
Interview: Risk factors for pelvic floor problems and what can help
ABC Everyday
Interview: Pelvic Organ Prolapse - What every woman needs to know
Bridge Magazine, Continence Foundation Australia
Interview: Pelvic pain, leakage, pain during sex? You may have an overactive pelvic floor
ABC Everyday
Interview: Answering Your Men’s Pelvic Pain Questions
Bridge Magazine, Continence Foundation of Australia
2020
Interview: Looking after your pelvic floor is about more than incontinence
ABC Everyday
Interview: How do pelvic floor devices for incontinence and prolapse work?
ABC Everyday
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
Articles Prior to 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
