How much do male soft tissue therapists really know about Women's Health? How much should they know? In Part 3 of this month's focus on Women's Health, we look at these questions and more, with the Sports Therapy Association Videocast & Podcast now being streamed LIVE exclusively to YouTube and then uploaded as a podcast. 

In order to discuss this topic, host Matt Phillips welcomes back to the show Matt Scarsbrook, one third of fantastic industry educators 'The Massage Collective' (with Anna Maria Mazzieri & Becky DeMott Horton).

Matt & Matt are joined by special guest 'Katie', who having been in her own words the "token woman on the leadership teams in most of the businesses I have worked for" has graciously agreed to "step up and be the token woman to represent all the vaginas out there."

Topics discussed include:

• How very little society talks about the Menopause
• How Women's Health issues are rarely talked about unless it happens to you or one of your friends
• The Government's Women's Health Strategy: Call For Evidence 
• Aristoteles and Female Testicles
• The implications of medical research being historically done by men on men or animals
• The lack of training across all health care providers
• Cardiovascular disease and women
• Could you tell if a woman was having a heart attack?
• Sex education: foo-foos and twinkles 
• How soft tissue therapists can help make a difference to reducing the taboo in Women's Health.      

About the Guests

Matt Scarsbrook is a Soft Tissue Therapist, one third of The Massage Collective and Physio Matters' new Digital Media Producer. He’s recently started the Matt Scarsbrook YouTube channel aimed at bringing some trustworthy Musculoskeletal (MSK) information to the platform, using his own shamelessly terrible sense of humour.

Katie (The Woman) is someone who by her own admission loves conversations that push the boundaries of social norms and asking deep and intimate questions to people she barely knows. Having been the token woman on the leadership teams in most of the businesses she has worked for, she welcomed the chance on our invitation to step up and be the token woman to 'represent all the vaginas out there'. And we're so glad she did. Thanks Katie!

Useful Links:

• Matt Scarsbrook YouTube Channel
• Women's Health Strategy: Call for Evidence
• Women are Not Small Men: Stacy Sims | TEDxTauranga

A huge thanks to Matt Scarsbrook & Katie for giving up their time to join us!

NEXT WEEK!
Our February Focus on Women's Health concludes next week with THREE special guests: Emma Brockwell, Grainne Donnelly and Dr Helen McElroy  will be joining us to discuss THE FEMALE ATHLETE. Make sure you subscribe to the Sports Therapy Association on YouTube and hit that bell icon to receive notifications! 

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