I’m currently enjoying all the busy activities of the Xmas season with baking, friends dropping in, parties, cooking and one too many slices of fruit cake. I stopped in my tracks today when I read about the Xmas school holidays ahead for some young females in the UK undergoing ritual Female Genital Mutilation which is [...]

Mary will be presenting a short paper and a 90min workshop at the Queensland Branch State Conference of Sports Medicine Australia in February 2010. ‘I am very excited to have the opportunity to speak and work with the medical professionals caring for our athletes’, said Mary.  ‘The pelvic floor problems in the female athletic population [...]

I have just finished a successful series of workshops to Physiotherapists at St Thomas Hospital, London, arranged by the private practitioners group. Today was a full day of book signing at the WOW (Wellbeing of Women) Show at the Royal College of  Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This fabulous show is where women can come and chat with [...]

Continence Awareness Week 2009 (August 2-8) gained only a brief mention in The Australian this week. It’s one of those topics we should be talking about in great length, but……One savvy lady, Tania McCartney, who ranks in Australia’s top100 women bloggers, wrote a great article on Continence Week for Australian Women Online. Read about her [...]

Singing and the Pelvic Floor Last night I enjoyed a fascinating dinner conversation with a tenor who performs with Andre Rieu. His interest in my pelvic floor work, lead him to about talk about his experiences both as a singer and teacher. He described how the strength of his resonance and projection comes from the [...]

Researchers are finding differences in the pelvic floor and abdominal muscle activity between continent and incontinent women. (Smith et al 2007). When muscles around the abdominal cavity contract, (External Oblique and Rectus Abdominis) pressure is increased inside the abdomen. This downwards pressure requires Pelvic Floor Muscles (PFMs) to simultaneously contract to maintain continence eg when [...]

Last week I was the guest of Gina Cloud who featured ‘Hold It Sister’ on her Redefining W.O.M.A.N Radio Show. This insightful lady embraces, honors and celebrates the rhythms of the feminine, the female cycles and most importantly, that fabulous temple known as a woman’s body. We spoke about the pelvic floor, what causes damage and [...]

Remember how your mum nagged you about sitting up straight? She was right on the ball as researchers tell us our posture muscles shut down when we slump. So when your chest drops your posture muscles are switched off. This is a problem in the long term as when we sit, stand and walk, these [...]

Today I have had lunch with Marilyn Freedman, a highly skilled Physical Therapist in Great Neck New York, who specialises in pelvic pain treatment for both women and men. She has amazing experience, empathy and effectiveness in treating chronic pelvic pain and clients are referred from all over the United States in an attempt to [...]

I’m currently in New York showing ‘Hold It Sister’ to producers from ABC, View, NBC, Today Show, a range of radio shows and editors magazines. They ALL love the title of my book, and most are expressing strong interest in doing an item or segment on me and Hold It Sister.  Fantastic!