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Women’s and Children’s Health Update: Pelvic Floor Overcontraction & Myalgia
Women’s and Children’s Health Update: Pelvic Floor Overcontraction & Myalgia

Women’s and Children’s Health Update: Pelvic Floor Overcontraction & Myalgia

Description

In this episode:

 

– The causes and symptoms of pelvic floor muscle overactivity
– The conservative management strategies for the treatment of pelvic floor muscle overactivity
– The role of Botox in the management of pelvic floor overactivity

 

 

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Sexual Health Physician; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW

 

Guest: Sherin Jarvis, Clinical and Research Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist; WHRIA

 

Time: 25 mins

 

 

Recommended Resources:

 

– WHRIA
– Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia
– Calm App Free 7 day trial
– Curable App For Chronic Pain – Free Trial
– Mindspot Free online course, Macquarie uni
– Headspace – Free Trial
– Mindfulness for Health, Burch & Penman, book & CD or free trial on Audible
– Qendo – Endometriosis, PCOS, Pelvic Pain Support, Free App
 

 

 


 

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Speaker

Sherin Jarvis

Clinical and Research Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist; WHRIA

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Sherin is a clinical and research pelvic floor physiotherapist with many years of experience. She has post-graduate qualifications in Acupuncture; Continence & Pelvic Floor Dysfunction; and Urodynamics. Her extensive knowledge and experience has taken her interstate and overseas sharing her experience and research findings in these areas with other medical and allied health professionals. Sherin has pioneered research into the use of Botulinum Toxin Type A for the treatment of chronic pelvic pain. She is also researching painful intercourse following treatment for breast cancer. Along with Professor Thierry Vancaillie and the WHRIA team she treats women and men suffering from pudendal neuralgia. She was a conjoint lecturer at UNSW from 2008 until she retired from this position in 2020.

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