My Health Story at the Digital Health Festival in 2024
The Digital Health Festival (DHF) is Australia's most important health transformation event. DHF is where health leaders meet to learn new skills, assess the latest solutions, network and form partnerships. It's also where they get the chance to meet a select group of 'trailblazing startups' who are out to revolutionise healthcare. My Health Story is thrilled to be accepted as one of these trailblazers presenting at the DHF24 event held 7 - 8 May at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. DHF is an event of unrivalled scale. It is the only place where the entire health ecosystem meets with a focus on technology as [...]
NEW My Health Story Lite
My Health Story (MHS) has seen many growth spurts in its start-up time. Today we release yet another! MHS is thrilled to introduce a new subscription package for users who want to use MHS more 'litely'. Enter MHS Lite! We learned that not everyone required their information to sync between the MHS website and handheld devices. Not everyone was necessarily interested in keeping lengthy details, so we narrowed down the main areas of MHS to make MHS Lite a more compact version. MHS Lite offers nine menu areas to help subscribers create, store and share their health story/stories on handheld devices [...]
Soula Presents at the RACGP Chronic Disease Workshop
My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, was recently invited to share her valuable expertise for GP training, once again highlighting the significance of lived experience for chronic pain management education. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) GP training session, ‘An approach to non-cancer pain,’ was hosted by Dr Paul Grinzi on Wednesday, 15 November 2023, in Melbourne. Soula’s 20-minute presentation included details of her 4.5-year medical odyssey that led to her chronic illness – one she believes could have been completely avoided with educational training sessions such as the one she was presenting at. Soula began her presentation by stating the vision and mission that have driven her advocacy and to becoming the founder of pudendalnerve.com.au and My Health Story: Understanding the unique lived experience is critical to tailored care and relieving the global burden of disease.
Soula’s Greatest Tips for Chronic Health Management
My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, has offered some helpful tips since beginning her advocacy in 2011 and launching pudendalnerve.com.au. We've collated some of Soula's most popular blogs on easing the pressure when sitting and travelling and included her most recent discovery about the effects of inflammation, which is proving to be a critical factor in helping with the management of any chronic health issue.
The Hurting Strings – An Artist’s Story of Pain
The Hurting Strings, an award-winning documentary was created by Australian filmmaker Peter Lamont in 2014 and has had thousands of views resonating with so many people living with invisible illness. It is a little sad that the film still has so much meaning, in fact, it's still relevant so many years later. I truly wish it wasn't.
Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days?
Is Symptom Tracking Your Road Map to Better Days? If you're living with fibromyalgia, you'll know first-hand how the experience forces you into constant symptom tracking. Imagine if you can let go of nagging details by being confident your symptoms are well-documented, in a safe place and being used as your road map to better days. This is possible!