Dr Melissa Davidson Specialist Physiotherapist in Pelvic Health

31/08/2026

And this is why we are traveling around the rural communities of Australia teaching health professionals how to treat common pelvic health conditions such as prolapses. It's our Australian Pessary Education Tour and we are starting in SA, VIC, and NSW in September, heading up to QLD in November, and following up with WA in March next year. Lots of travel but if we can help make a difference, worth it! See our itinerary and details of courses for health professionals in the comments below.

Amid a baby boom, mothers in the outback town of Longreach say they have lost access to allied health help for post-birthing issues, with the nearest option now hundreds of kilometres away.

24/08/2026

SYDNEY– Do you fit just ring & cube pessaries? Do you want to know how to fit Hodge, Donut, Marland, Dish, Gehung, Cup, Shaatz, Reia, Gellhorn, and Oval pessaries?
How is your clinical reasoning? Your biomechanical assessment of the va**na, including full POP-Q (with POPStix and speculum), and LAM avulsion assessments?
How about your speculum skills? Are they up to speed for assessing va**nal mucosa for erosions or other issues with pessary management?
Do you have robust systems in place for safe patient pessary management? Do you know the latest research in this space, but also know how that applies to your day-to-day clinical practice?
If any of those questions makes you think, maybe you need to upskill by attending one of our courses.
Developed and presented in person by Specialist Physiotherapist Dr Melissa Davidson (PhD, MPhil, PGC PH), with over 35 years of clinical experience and 12 years of Clinical Education of health professionals in pelvic health (physios, GP’s, nurses, etc).
Course details for SEPTEMBER in SYDNEY are here: https://www.drmelissadavidson.com/hybrid-courses-for-health-professionals

24/08/2026

MELBOURNE – Do you fit just ring & cube pessaries? Do you want to know how to fit Hodge, Donut, Marland, Dish, Gehung, Cup, Shaatz, Reia, Gellhorn, and Oval pessaries?
How is your clinical reasoning? Your biomechanical assessment of the va**na, including full POP-Q (with POPStix and speculum), and LAM avulsion assessments?
How about your speculum skills? Are they up to speed for assessing va**nal mucosa for erosions or other issues with pessary management?
Do you have robust systems in place for safe patient pessary management? Do you know the latest research in this space, but also know how that applies to your day-to-day clinical practice?
If any of those questions makes you think, maybe you need to upskill by attending one of our courses.
Developed and presented in person by Specialist Physiotherapist Dr Melissa Davidson (PhD, MPhil, PGC PH), with over 35 years of clinical experience and 12 years of Clinical Education of health professionals in pelvic health (physios, GP’s, nurses, etc).
Course details for SEPTEMBER in MELBOURNE are here: https://www.drmelissadavidson.com/hybrid-courses-for-health-professionals

19/08/2026

Course Venues Confirmed - thanks everyone who offered, we had some amazing locations to choose from for our Pessaries Courses. The following clinics have our Pessaries Intro, Pessaries Advanced, and Speculum Workshops coming up.
Adelaide - Ivoryrose Clinic
Melbourne - Eastern Osteopathy
Sydney - Procure Physio
Brisbane - Pelvic Prime and Physiotherapy
Townsville - Townsville University Hospital
Perth - Physio73
Auckland - Unisports
If you are looking for dates, locations, registration, fees, etc, please check out all the details here https://www.drmelissadavidson.com/hybrid-courses-for-health-professionals
Courses start in 2 weeks so don't delay.

16/08/2026

Pessaries - Intro and Advanced Courses & Speculum Workshop. Australia September 2026, November 2026, & March 2027. https://courses-anz-2026.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Australian+Pessaries+Education+Tour+2026-2027+-+A4+Flyer+20260814.pdf
Book now to secure your place!

14/08/2026

MELBOURNE & SYDNEY Pelvic Health Physios - do you have a VENUE we can use for training courses?
We are looking for a venue in Melbourne on 12/13 September and Sydney on 19/20 September. Dates can't be changed, we will need the space for the whole day but can be slightly flexible on timing or working around the clinic space available.
Ideally you would have 3 rooms + a slightly larger space (gym/reception area) for group lectures for up to 10 people.
We have all our own kit - projector, screen, all consumables, etc. We are just needing a space for the Pessaries and Speculum Courses we are running this September.
We pay a rental fee in either $$$, discount on the courses, or whatever we can agree on!
If you think you have something suitable and are keen to host us, please get in touch ASAP to Melissa or Simon at [email protected]. We can have a natter to see if it will work for both of us! :)

14/08/2026

Website Outage - Looks like the ice hasn't reached our website with 'a critical cooling issue' causing our website host data centre to malfunction. If you need to get hold of us, use email [email protected] It should be back up by tonight NZ time.

13/08/2026

Busy week and weekend in Auckland. On the way up, a short teaching session for student midwives at Waikato Uni (forgot to take a photo!), a full day workshop for midwives at Middlemore Hospital, and then a weekend teaching health professionals on our Internals and Advanced Pelvic Health Courses. Fantastic to see so many health professionals learning new skills to help our community.

04/08/2026

ADELAIDE – Do you fit just ring & cube pessaries? Do you want to know how to fit Hodge, Donut, Marland, Dish, Gehung, Cup, Shaatz, Reia, Gellhorn, and Oval pessaries?

How is your clinical reasoning? Your biomechanical assessment of the va**na, including full POP-Q (with POPStix and speculum), and LAM avulsion assessments?

How about your speculum skills? Are they up to speed for assessing va**nal mucosa for erosions or other issues with pessary management?

Do you have robust systems in place for safe patient pessary management? Do you know the latest research in this space, but also know how that applies to your day-to-day clinical practice?

If any of those questions makes you think, maybe you need to upskill by attending one of our courses.

Developed and presented in person by Specialist Physiotherapist Dr Melissa Davidson (PhD, MPhil, PGC PH), with over 35 years of clinical experience and 12 years of Clinical Education of health professionals in pelvic health (physios, GP’s, nurses, etc).

Course details for Adelaide are here: https://www.drmelissadavidson.com/hybrid-courses-for-health-professionals

29/07/2026

Full itinerary is available here: https://go.drmelissadavidson.com/pessaries-education-tour-FB