For those of you who are unaware, I am on the road to a PhD through The University of Queensland (at present I am an MPhil candidate, but if all goes well, this will be upgraded to a PhD early next year). I want to motivate and encourage women from a young age to get active and participate in the types of exercise they love, however pelvic floor problems like incontinence and prolapse cause many women to stop physical activity or to not even start. As part of my PhD I am coll

Dr. Judith Thompson, PhD FACP, is a Specialist Continence and Women’s Health Physiotherapist in Perth, Western Australia. She joins me in this episode to discuss how she came to study and treat the pelvic floor within a system rather than independently. She gives us insight on how she uses real time ultrasound to assess pelvic floor problems and the relationship of pelvic floor muscles to IAP. We discussed her background in research on IAP and advice on whether women should d