pain management Archives - My Health Story

Welcoming MHS Friend, Dustienne Miller & Your Pace Yoga
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Welcoming MHS Friend, Dustienne Miller & Your Pace Yoga

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Welcoming MHS Friend, Dustienne Miller & Your Pace Yoga

Great Oz2026-04-04T15:31:15+11:00April 4, 2026|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and Physical Therapist and Board Certified Women’s Health Clinical Specialist Dustienne Miller go way back. In fact, all the way to 2014, when Soula was desperately seeking a way to return to her yoga practice and discovered Dustienne’s website, Your Pace Yoga. This was also the time when Soula was gathering resources for pudendalnerve.com.au in order to help an expanding global pelvic pain community. The introduction led [...]

The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain: Offering a free 30-minute introductory call
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The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain: Offering a free 30-minute introductory call

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The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain: Offering a free 30-minute introductory call

Great Oz2025-11-28T14:39:53+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friend, The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain is a non-clinical education and advocacy initiative dedicated to making invisible pain visible. And to help My Health Story followers, they are generously offering a free private 30-minute introductory call. Founded by retired gynecologist and telehealth educator, Robert J. Echenberg, MD FACOG (Dr E), The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain empowers patients and providers affected by chronic pelvic, genital, and sexual pain through evidence-based [...]

Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking
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Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking

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Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking

Great Oz2025-11-28T14:13:07+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

Guest blog by Mandy Mercuri Mindfulness & Pain Recovery Coach & My Health Story Advisory Member If you’re living with ongoing musculoskeletal pain, it’s completely understandable to feel frustrated, confused, or even hopeless at times. Many of us spend years being told to “manage” pain rather than understanding the root cause of why it’s happening or how to help it change. The good news? Pain can change. And today, I’d love to introduce [...]

Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht
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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

Great Oz2025-07-10T11:43:21+10:00July 10, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) friend, Evelyn Hecht (and a great comrade of the pelvic pain world), who created PelvicSense has an invitation for MHS followers. If you are experiencing persistent pelvic pain, urgency, or burning symptoms and need help learning more about these issues and how to manage them (yes, you can!), then here’s a must-attend event for you. MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos, understands that these events can be difficult. ‘I’ve often sat and stared at the thing [...]

Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain
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Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain

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Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain

Great Oz2024-11-15T15:39:23+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

Dr Gronski & Team have many patients asking questions about pudendal nerve blocks for pelvic pain. So they created this video with licensed Occupational Therapist and Certified Pelvic Health Specialist Lainie Givens, who explains pudendal nerve blocks for diagnosis and treatment of pudendal neuralgia while also offering additional tips to help patients find relief from pelvic pain – it is possible! Watch or jump specific video chapters: […]

MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery
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MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery

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MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery

Great Oz2024-11-15T15:27:08+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friends, MoreGoodDays understand how tough living with back pain can be—whether it's from sciatica, a disc bulge, or something less clear. It's exhausting, frustrating, and can make everyday activities feel impossible. Bringing the best experts, scientists and clinicians from around the world, the team at MoreGoodDays has been busy working on a new program that is specifically for ongoing back pain. Bringing you insights from leading experts in pain: Your Content Goes Here [...]

Soula’s Greatest Tips for Chronic Health Management
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Soula’s Greatest Tips for Chronic Health Management

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Soula’s Greatest Tips for Chronic Health Management

Great Oz2023-09-26T12:39:45+10:00September 26, 2023|Blog, 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.

My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia
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My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia

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My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia

Great Oz2023-06-30T15:01:53+10:00June 30, 2023|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

My Health Story Welcomes More Good Days – More Empowerment for Individuals living with Fibromyalgia

Introducing My Health Story friend, Wise Psychology
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Introducing My Health Story friend, Wise Psychology

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Introducing My Health Story friend, Wise Psychology

Great Oz2023-04-29T10:44:05+10:00April 24, 2023|Affiliate, Blog, Using My Health Story|

Seeking mental health support when living with an invisible illness is essential to the care and well-being process. Finding high-quality and accessible mental health support tailored to your needs can be difficult. Wise Psychology, My Health Story’s (MHS) latest friend, could be your answer to this problem! Chronic illness has a substantial psychological and emotional component, including stress, anxiety, guilt, grief, shame, and depression. People living with invisible chronic conditions can be left feeling their illness is ‘all [...]

Own Your Health Data
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Own Your Health Data

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Own Your Health Data

Great Oz2023-03-30T14:34:37+11:00March 30, 2023|Blog, Health Management, Using My Health Story|

Self-management is hard, chronic illness is overwhelming. Chronic illness robs you of your independence and control, leaving you feeling defeated and mentally and physically drained. Add to the endless appointments required; now, we also have to be considerate of healthcare systems under pressure. Guess who gets the short end of the stick? We pay with our lives. Perhaps healthcare systems were destined to burst their stitches because healthCARE was never built to care for people; it was made to keep people relying on it. That's not care. Can taking more ownership of our health make a difference?

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