Health Educational Resources

"Use it or Lose it" by Dr Grace Dorey

A self help guide for men.Overcoming problems with the prostate, erectile dysfunction and urinary leakage.

Many men suffer frequent urge to pass urine and endless sleepless nights spent on numerous trips to the bathroom. Many such symptoms can be overcome with the right advice and treatment.

In this book, Dr Grace Dorey suggests what to do to prevent or minimise problems with the prostate, urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction.

A "must read" for men of all ages!

Pelvic Floor Function and the Bowel is a guide to understanding bowel difficulties and suggests simple ways of improving bowel function, effectively eradicate constipation, minimise flatulence and prevent faecal incontinence.

This book offers a wealth of practical information and advice to women suffering with regular and often difficult constipation problems. Faecal incontinence is also comprehensively addressed.

Dr Robyn Nagel, a Gastroenterologist and Shirley Owen, Women's Continence Physiotherapist are the authors of this informative booklet that delivers valuable health information to women of all ages. The booklet is full of useful visuals, charts and constructive and helpful recommendations.

Pelvic Floor Function and the Bowel book is provided with a laminated A5 Fibre Chart, which allows a fast and easy 'at a glance' calculation of a daily fibre intake that is essential for healthy bowel habits.

Saze A5.

14 pages.

The Good Bowel Habit - Managing Constipation and Incontinence

A comprehensive guide to pelvic floor, bowels, postural issues, continence and diet - a fantastic educational and informative resource for medical professionals and for women of all ages.

With growing concerns voiced by the health professionals in respect of the numbers of people diagnosed with diabetes and obesity and the impact of these conditions on good bowel habit and overall health, this comprehensive self help guide ‘Good Bowel Habit, managing constipation and incontinence’ is a timely and informative publication that every woman should read.

The Good Bowel Habit explains the role of the pelvic floor and the development of pelvic floor weakness with its early consequences (i.e. stress incontinence, vaginal flatus, decrease in sexual response) and eventually progressing to unpleasant genital prolapse - uterine prolapse, bladder prolapse, rectal prolapse and small intestine prolapse - with further serious implications on long term health, mobility and independence.

The book is the work of a gastroenterologist and a physiotherapist, both of whom have been treating women presenting with problems related to constipation, obstructed defecation, urinary and faecal incontinence and persistent flatulence. The authors witnessed and recognised that poor diet has serious effects on human body and poor dietary choices can often lead to dysfunctional bowel habits with serious implications to health.

The Good Bowel Habit offers a wealth of practical information and advice to women suffering with an array of bowel problems, including constipation, prolapse, pain around the back passage and faecal incontinence. The Good Bowel Habit is a guide to good dietary habits with an explanation of how food is digested and processed and how the cultivation of good bowel habits correlates with exercise and musculoskeletal fitness, culminating in the efficient elimination of waste from our bodies.

Dr Robyn Nagel, a Gastroenterologist and Shirley Owen, Women's Continence Physiotherapist are the authors of this comprehensive informative illustrated publication that delivers valuable information on diet, bowels and the importance of pelvic floor fitness to women of all ages.

Colour illustrations.

Size A 4.

46 pages.  

Endoscopy Patient Information

An excellent, informative and easy to understand guide to people who are about to undergo upper endoscopy (gastroscopy) or lower endoscopy (colonoscopy).

Written by a Gastroenterologist, Dr Robyn Nagel, this amply illustrated booklet gives theoretical outline to endoscopic procedures and their safety. It provides practical advice on matters, such as diet and medication prior to the procedure and what to take to the hospital on the day.   

Colour illustrations. 

Size A 4.  

20 pages. 

'Making posture for women sexy, stylish and fun' by Carol Armitage

Health and Fitness Prescription for Women

Written by a practicing New Zealand physiotherapist, Carol Armitage, this wonderful and inspiring book about the importance of body posture and intelligent exercise, encourages women to appreciate the powerful and constant impact of the posture on their bodies and their lives. It describes how closely our wellbeing relates to our body image.

Carol's posture workout is an exercise script to keep all parts of your body in fine working order for your entire life. You can exercise away the body changes brought about or caused by ageing, illness or injury. You can keep youthful shape and agility for life!

The Power of Posture - Making posture for women sexy, stylish and fun!

Your Way to Fitness and Beauty!

135 pages of interesting facts, essential guidance and easy illustrated 'step by step' exercises to improve your posture for better health, greater beauty and life long fitness. Enjoyable, fascinating and modern way to fitter and sexier you!

Published by Random House of New Zealand, 2003.

Women's Waterworks Curing Incontinence by Dr Pauline Chiarelli is a global bestseller and essential reading for women of all ages. One-in-three women suffer incontinence at some point in their lives. This can be effectively prevented, minimised or cured, if preventive action is taken in the correct manner. Learn and act "step by step" guide for confident female continence at any age.

World's bestselling pelvic floor fitness manual for women of all ages. Easy to understand "learn and act" guide on pelvic floor health with a key objectives of curing and preventing urinary incontinence.

Womens Waterworks is easy and fun to read. It is educational and informative and teaches women to utilise time when working, resting and playing to perform their daily pelvic floor workouts - pelvic floor exercises - simply and effectively.

Womens Waterworks can help you to have a strong pelvic floor and stay continent for life. Strong pelvic floor also greatly improves sexual responsiveness. Womens Waterworks teaches you to exercise your pelvic floor for the best results.

In her new book Prevent it, Dr Grace Dorey explains the reasons behind the faecal incontinence and how to prevent or stop the leakage from happening. The book also explains how and when to tighten the pelvic floor muscles as part of an exercise recovery programme. These crucial pelvic floor exercises can be performed by men and women that suffer with the condition or wish to prevent it from occurring in the future.

Prevent it is a self-help guide and/or an adjunct to therapy. It is suitable for the patients as well as healthcare professionals and students. Convenient assessment questionnaire, glossary of medical terms and "where to seek help" section are included.

"Male Pelvic Floor Assessment" is an educational and teaching aid for medical professionals. Performed by Dr grace Dorey, the programme presents a real life male pelvic floor muscles assessment session together with Dr Dorey's detailed guidance on all relevant matters. A "must have" for physiotherapist and urologosts and all other medical professionals involved with pelvic muscles assessment

Available in VHS or DVD version or NTSC VHS format (surcharge for DVD and NTSC)

How to Prevent Falls by Betty Perkins-Carpenter

A comprehensive guide to older people's fitness and an invaluable teaching resource. Physical fitness helps to improve muscle tone and improves postural balance. Risk of falls can be substantially reduced. Exercising should be fun!

35 exercises designed for older people.

Stretching in Bed - a guide to achieving and maintaining agility through exercises in bed upon awaking by Betty Perkins-Carpenter.

Sold as a set.

Stretching in Bed Guide is an excellent educational aid for older people and for healthcare professionals working with older people . It teaches simple and easy stretching exercises to be done before getting up from bed. Such exercise routine is very simple and done in bed upon waking. It makes people more awake and agile and can prevent falling down. Stretching in bed is a wise morning move that will make you feel better and look better. Follow this simple guide written by Betty Perkins-Carpenter, a specialist in exercises and fitness for older people.

A self - help video by Dr Grace Dorey and Dr Kevin Foreman to show men the correct way to perform pelvic floor exercises. Pelvic floor training will help to gain and maintain normal erectile function and cure post-micturition dribble. The programme explains the conditions and the causes and refers viewers to the male pelvic floor anatomy and muscle function. Pelvic floor exercises are demonstrated by a male model. Helpful changes in lifestyle that can help men with erectile dysfunction are suggested.

Pelvic Floor Exercises for Men Poster by Dr Grace Dorey presents pelvic floor muscels exercises for men on a A3 size colour poster that is suitable for use in healthcare clinics as well as in private homes. Informative, concise, clear and nicely illustrated.

Prevention is better than cure - all men should consider pelvic floor exercises to prevent incontinence, post micturition dribble and erectile dysfunction.

Laminated A3 size.

Pelvic Floor Exercises for Women Poster by Dr Grace Dorey presents pelvic floor exercises for women in a convenient poster format. The exercises are presented clearly and in a concise and easy to understand and follow way. Nicely and tastefully illustrated. All women should consider pelvic floor exercises to prevent urinary incontinence and to enhance their sexual lives.

An excellent educational aid for use in healthcare clinics and in private homes.

Laminated A3 size.