Let’s Talk About Sex – Hormone Therapy for the Prostate with Adore Your Pelvic Floor & Debbie Dillon

22nd November 2021

 

The second information video of the series we are offering at Adore Your Pelvic Floor with advice specific to men receiving hormone treatment for prostate cancer.

Debbie Dillion is a Women’s and Men’s Pelvic Health Physio working within in the NHS and Private Practice with a special interest in Men’s Health; she is currently involved with a pilot scheme for pre-rehabilitation, pre-radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer patients at the Somerset Foundation Trust and she holds a Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy.

Debbie has focussed this 30-minute session to:

1. How Prostate cancer affect our sex life
2. Hormone therapy and sexual function
3. Useful lifestyle changes?
4. Support
5. Getting the best from treatment
6. What types of treatment are available
7. Fitting treatments into your sex life
8. Worries about sex
9. Intimacy

Here are some of the recommended resource links we mentioned within the session.

Debbie Dillon’s: https://www.debbiedillonpelvichealth.com/

Adore Your Pelvic Floor: https://adoreyourpelvicfloor.co.uk

Jo Divine: https://www.jodivine.com

Prostate Cancer UK: https://prostatecanceruk.org/

Macmillan: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Psychosexual counsellors Institute of Psychosexual Medicine (IPM) https://www.ipm.org.uk/25/find-a-doctor

College of sexual and relation therapists ( COSRT) https://www.cosrt.org.uk/therapists-nearest-me-search-results/

Books:

Prostate Cancer Strikes – Navigating The Storm – Gogs Gagnon – https://gogsgagnon.com/

Craig Allingham – prostate Recovery Map https://craigallingham.com

Peter Dorian -Conquering Incontinence http://www.peterdornanphysio.com.au/mens_health.html

Vanity Gaglani – Life after Prostatectomy

To find your local Men’s Pelvic health Physio: https://www.squeezyapp.com/directory/

Squeezy App for Men to help with pelvic floor exercises: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/squeezy

Pelvic Roar offer great Men’s Health Advice https://www.pelvicroar.org/men

We welcome health organisations to share the endorsed series as a free resource to enable men to have access to evidence-based advice to support them during hormone treatment.

Video Series Endorsed by Katrina Wade – Specialist Women’s and Men’s Pelvic Health Physio BSc (HONS) MCSP https://www.bodyworksphysio.net/men-s-health/physiotherapy-and-prostate-surgery/

We thank Debbie Dillon and the rest of the team that have made these videos possible, Louise Field

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