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: […]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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?
As My Health Story (MHS) knows, one of the biggest challenges for people living with chronic pain is receiving validation. Finding a diagnosis and, once that occurs, being taken seriously and provided adequate support. MHS is happy to introduce an additional partner within the chronic disease world, Jaspen. Jaspen believe that data can attract the right medical team and access the appropriate care. And data communicated from the hands of its owner can empower people to feel in [...]
(IMAGE: Judy Darling prints her health story via the website) An exciting new feature is helping MHS users communicate their unique health situations more easily during appointments. My Health Story (MHS) has always prioritised the safe sharing of user health stories. The current MHS Access Link function effectively tracks information for users who like to monitor whose checking in to their health story/stories, and when and how often. Over the past few months, some user feedback sent to [...]
A Novel Method for Digital Pain Assessment Using Abstract Animations: Human-Centered Design Approach published on 7.1.2022 in Vol 9, No 1 (2022): Jan-Mar. Authors of this article: Nema Rao, Sophy Perdomo, Charles Jonassaint ‘Successful medical care depends on effective communication between patients and clinicians regarding the patients’ health symptoms and the most appropriate therapeutic path [35]. Providers are unable to deliver quality medical care when they lack the tools to appropriately assess or interpret patient symptoms that are critical [...]
(Original post by Soula Mantalvanos for pudendalnerve.com.au) It was wonderful sharing my story and vision at the Murray City Coast Country GP Training. AND especially presenting on a stage and in actual physical life to 50 general practitioners (GPs) who were keen to learn about chronic pain. I've now participated in a few of the Murray City Coast Country (MCCC) GP Training sessions with the fabulous Dr Paul Grinzi (boy, does he get it!). It's a positive experience for [...]
