Inside the Box
A podcast for women and professionals alike, hosted by mums and Women's Health Physiotherapists, Kat, Tash, and Caitlin. Established and driven by our desires to share our passion for educating and empowering women to better understand their bodies, in particular - what's inside their 'box'. Amongst ourselves, real-life patients and leading industry experts, we’ll unpack a variety of topics including pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy, exercise, birth, postpartum, sexual pain, endometriosis, leakage, prolapse and beyond.
Inside the Box
How can we better prepare our bodies for childbirth with Jo Murdoch
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Kat, Tash & Caitlin
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Season 2
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Episode 7
Jo is a well experienced physiotherapist and Director of The Physiotherapy Clinic. She has spent the better part of 10 years learning and working in the pelvic floor, pelvic health and childbirth arena which has lead to her post grad cert in continence and women's health and a masters in women's health medicine. Now Jo has moved into studying medicine and is a PhD student looking into pelvic floor assessment in pregnancy. Jo also heads a birth education platform, Born Ready, and hosts a yearly conference for health professionals working in Women’s Health . Fun fact Jo’s grandmother had 18 children.
In this episode we cover:
- How Jo’s personal and professional experience have shaped the work she is doing in birth preparation
- Juggling clinical work, motherhood, business ownership, studying medicine and deep diving into research work
- Jo’s current work in the research field on pelvic floor outcome measures in pregnancy, and their relationship to birth outcomes
- What is the role of the physio in birth preparation?
- What are the most important parts of birth prep to reduce birth trauma
- How to push effectively
- Birth education and Born Ready
Links: Born Ready https://www.bornready.com.au/
