High-intensity PFMT Before & After Prostatectomy
Improves Outcomes

Principal Physiotherapist with a special interest in Men’s Health, Yoga & Pilates. Jo graduated with a Bachelor of Science(Physiotherapy) from Curtin University , Western Australia in 1993 recently completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia’s School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health. As a private practice MSK Physiotherapist with more than 15 years PT experience, Jo was invited by her Urologist brother to establish a Men’s Health service to treat his prostate cancer patients in 2005. The decade since then has resulted in Jo treating over 3000 prostatectomy patients , over 500 chronic pelvic pain patients and 100’s of men with Erectile Dysfunction and a dire recognition that Men’s Health is far behind Women’s Health. Presentations at international conferences include, 2011’s Australia New Zealand Urological Society meeting , 2014’s Asia- Pacfic Sexology Conference in Brisbane, Poster Presentation at 2014’s World Congress Prostate Cancer Conference, Podium presentations in Men’s Health at WCPT15 in Singapore and Cape Town 2017. Men’s Health courses are also taught by Jo in Australia with ‘Mastering the Martians’ team, consisting of Craig Allingham, Stuart Baptist and Peter Dornan. In 2016/17 Jo delivered Men’s Health workshops to Physiotherapists in UK, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand and South Africa. Jo established the Men’s Health Physiotherapy Facebook group in 2014 which currently hosts over 2000 international Physiotherapists. A 24 hour Men’s Health twitter chat hosted by the APA attracted more than 3 million views in Men’s Health Week 2015. Finally, Jo established PROST! Exercise 4 Prostate Cancer, a not for profit community education and exercise program for men in 2012.