For Health Professionals

 Your first patient (prolapse) has chronic constipation, with bowels about as lively as an overstuffed armchair. Your second patient (faecal incontinence) has chronic diarrhoea, and every medical investigation under the sun comes up with a shoulder shrug.*Everyone knows you should increase fibre in constipation.* (Except when increasing fibre causes worse problems…) *In chronic diarrhoea, more fibre would logically be the last thing the patient needs.* (Except when fibre is the therapeutic solution…) Holy [...]

Pop quiz for pelvic physios: what is the common denominator in these patient presentations?   (These are all real patients, but I bet you feel like you have seen them too!)  30-something woman plagued with recurrent thrush and BV (bacterial vaginosis). 30-something woman who had vaginal Group B strep during pregnancy and persistent bladder irritation after. 60-something [...]

You’ve all seen it – the mile-long supplement list your patient brings in. Who knows what all those pills do, or if they need them? If your patient has musculoskeletal pain, curcumin is usually there. Does it work? Do they need it? Do they know something you don’t? You don’t want them being taken [...]