pelvic floor function and the bowel

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A Gastroenterologist and a Physiotherapist have collaborated to produce a book that may be helpful.
One woman in 5 over 40 years of age has constipation. She has a slow, difficult bowel habit or strains at stool.

"One person in 10 over 40 years of age has incontinence of faeces and or wind. Both of these bowel difficulties may relate to pelvic floor muscle weakness.

Understanding how the gastrointestinal tract works and how our pelvic floor muscles contribute to good bowel (& bladder) function is the first step to tackling these two common problems."

 

Dr. Robyn Nagel
graduated in Medicine at Melbourne University in 1977. She obtained her specialist qualification in 1984 and has been practicing clinical Gastroenterology since that time. She spent 5 years post graduate study in England and has been in private practice Toowoomba Queensland for the past 12 years. She is a member of the Royal College of Physicians , Australian Gastroenterology Society and the Continence Foundation of Australia.    
She provides the following services: Specialist Consultation in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Upper and Lower Endoscopy (diagnostic and interventional) E R C P (diagnostic and interventional) Oesophageal and gastric 24hr pH monitoring Small Bowel Capsule endoscopy
 

Mrs. Shirley Owen Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Mrs Shirley Owen graduated in Physiotherapy from the University of Queensland and obtained postgraduate experience in Australia, England and Denmark.
In 1972 she joined a private practice at St. Vincent's Hospital Toowoomba and became responsible for the Obstetric and Gynaecological patients in that practice.
When Pauline Chiarelli introduced Australian physiotherapists to the physiotherapy management of incontinence in women, Shirley visited her and became inspired to set up her own women's health practice, "The Toowoomba Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Clinic" in 1982.
She was a founding member of the Continence Foundation in Australia in 1989 and maintains close links with this organisation. She has now retired from practice but still retains membership of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and the Continence Foundation of Australia and avidly follows the latest research in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction.