27/10/2023
The cat’s out the bag! 🐈⬛
On November 1st we’re launching the project that and I have been working on for the last year 🥂
✨ Introducing ✨
We started with teaching, upskilling the UK pelvic health physio workforce in treating pelvic pain. I translated my masters research into a pain course, V joined me to teach (but mostly to hang out and talk pelvic pain) and now over 700 physios worldwide have been through either in person or online training💪🏼 Now we want to make pelvic pain treatment what we know the it needs to be - joined up, accessible, equitable.
🔸 The Pelvic Pain Network will allow women to access specialist pelvic health physio treatment for pain from anywhere in the UK, getting rid of the postcode lottery. We’ll build a team around each woman with the support they need to recover. We’ve collaborated with professionals nationwide from the wider MDT - psychologists, dieticians, urologists, gynaecologists, colorectal surgeons, nurse specialists, pain specialists and pain coaches - and it’s growing.
🔸 We’ll host free resources online to support colleagues nationwide and be holding pelvic pain teaching and conference days. And professional mentorship and peer support remains a mainstay of our mission - if we’re all doing well then women get the help they need.
💚 I couldn’t and wouldn’t have done this without Virginia, we’re a great team. I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved so far alongside PhD/research and parenting small children. Cheers to us! 🥂 And I’m excited for you all to meet our growing team, what an incredible group of people we’ve put together 🤩