Alhamdulillah that Allah bless us with this rain that have been going for several days that we know the earth needed. And we all need this rain. But let's reflect about this rain that's coming, that Allah swt in one verse said, Audhu Billah s-Tarjeem, وَمَا نُنَزِّلُهُ إِلَّا بِقَدَرٍ مَعْلُونَ We only let the rain come with the exact measurement that's known. That means the number of drops that's coming is being measured and known by Allah swt. And Allah planned it. And the way this rain is coming, as Allah said, سُدْ فُرْقَانَ عَضُمِ اللَّهِ اَشْطَرْضِينَ وَهُوَ اللَّهِ اَرْسَلَ الْرِيَحَ بُسْرَةَ بَيْنَيَدِ رَحْمَتِ Allah sent the wind at the beginning, give you the good news that the mercy of Allah is coming. Bushra, good news, بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِ In front of the, the mercy of Allah swt. If it is in his hand, this is the mercy of Allah, بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِ وَنْزَلْنَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَا أَنْطَهُورًا And then we wrote from the heaven, a water to make tahrur, to make things clear. نِنُحِيَ بِهِ بِلَّتَ مَيْتَهُورًا And then we make the city that is dead alive again. And that mercy when goes to the heart, this heart that is dead will be alive again. And then the physical rain, the same verse said وَنُسْقِيَهُ مِنْ مَا خَلَقْرًا عَمَلْ وَنَسْيَكَسِيرًا And then we let people drink from it and the animals drink from it and the people benefit from it. So if we reflect on that who's bringing this rain for us? And what's this rahmah that's coming for us? That's only Allah is capable of giving us this rain. And Allah said in another verse, said عَوْدُ بِلَّشْتَرِينَ اَفَرَأَيْتُ مِنْ لَا مَا الَّذِ تَشْرَمُونَ Did you reflect on the water that you're drinking? أنتُ مَنزَلْتُهُ مِنَ الْمُسْلِيَ اَمْنَحِمُ مُسْلُونَ Did you bring it from the clouds? Or I brought it for you? لَوْنَ شَاءُ جَعْلْنَاهُ أُجَاجَ فَلُوَسْفُونَ If we would, we would make it a water that you can't even drink. So thank me, have a hamed. Because Allah said in this holy milk فَإِنْ قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُ مِنْ أَصْفَحَ مَا أَكُمْ غَوْرًا فَمْ يَتِكْمِ مِنْ مَا اِمْ مَعِيْتُ If Allah made this, your water is being done from earth. There's no water at all. From working water. You have to know that the good news that comes from the wind at the beginning, that Rahmah is coming. And here's where I reflect on Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When the first thing will come, he will go out and let the water go to his body. And he will say, قريبة عهدين رب. It's a close, just came from Allah. The one that I love, the one of the mercy, just came from him and I want to increase the mercy that's coming from me. And Subh'ana Llahu sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he described this ummah as this ummah of Rahmah. The hadith said, فَعَنْ أَنَسَبْ مِمَالِكِ رَضِيْ اللَّهُ عَنَسَيْنَا أَنَسْنَا رَضِيْتُ دَاتْخَصْلَعَسَعَسَعَسَلَمْ قَالْ He said, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallallahu alayhi It's been narrated in terms of that مثل أمتي مثل المطر لا يدر أول هو خير أم أخيره My ummah example is like this rain that's coming. You don't know where is the khair. Is it at the beginning or the middle or the end? It's all khair. So when Allah swt described this ummah as the rain that mean even though He said Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the best is my generation, the one after the one after. But at the same time, in every generation there is khair because of what I've said, you don't know. Is it the khair is at the beginning? أولي أم أخيره. And definitely that indicates that this ummah is ummah of khair and Allah gives the example of this rain. So what we need to do actually to definitely enjoy


Hello, you are watching the Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Activists condemn UK Rwanda asylum deal, over 40 killed in airstrikes on Afghanistan, Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa Mosque again, and environmental crimes rise in Brazil's Amazon. In our first story, activists have slammed the United Kingdom over an offshore asylum processing deal with Rwanda. People deemed to have arrived in the UK unlawfully since January 1st will be at risk of transfer. The $156 million agreement has been condemned as barbaric, new colonial, and cruel. Only about 1% of refugees globally have access to safe and direct resettlement through the United Nations. A majority of people are forced to take dangerous journeys under threat of violence and detention. In 2021, over 28,500 refugees and migrants crossed to the UK through the English Channel. This figure was over three times higher compared to 2020. While full details of the new agreement have not been declared, the UK will screen asylum seekers and send their information to Kigali. Rwanda will handle the asylum process. Based on whether their application is successful, asylum seekers will either be settled in Rwanda or be deported. Operational command of the English Channel has been handed to the Royal Navy. The United Nations has warned that the UK is looking to shift its responsibilities towards refugees instead of sharing them. It added that such deals often violate international law and that people should not be traded like commodities. The Johnson government has tried to justify its brutal policies as a crackdown on illegal smuggling. Let's groups have warned that this approach is ineffective and will put already vulnerable people under threat. They have also highlighted similar offshoring policies enforced by Australia which led to severe abuses in camps including rape and suicide. The proposed deal is part of the Nationality and Borders Bill currently in Parliament. At least 47 people have been killed in air strikes by the Pakistani military on parts of eastern Afghanistan. The attacks took place in the provinces of Kost and Kunar late on April 15. According to Pajok Afghan News Agency, the air strikes hit the Sparai and Shaltan districts where refugees from Waziristan were settled. Local residents have stated that none of those killed had any links to an armed group. They also reported intense fighting between Afghan and Pakistani forces in the Masthibil locality in Kost. Six fatalities were reported from Kunar. Friday's attack sparked protests in several areas including Kost on Saturday with hundreds taking to the streets. An official in the provinces told Pajok that the air strikes took place after increased attacks on Pakistani forces. These were attributed to the extremist Tehriki Taliban Pakistan or TTP group. Pakistan has claimed that militant groups like the TTP have been using Afghan soil to launch attacks. This included an alleged attack last week which killed seven Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan. The group's presence along the Durand line has repeatedly triggered clashes between the two countries. The border is also used by Afghans to cross into Pakistan for trade and access to medical care. On April 17, Pakistan's foreign ministry urged Taliban authorities to take action against militants. The military has not commented on the attacks as of now. We now go to Palestine where Israeli occupation forces violently stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque for a second time on April 17. At least a dozen Palestinian worshippers were arrested and several others were wounded. This followed just days after at least 150 Palestinians were injured in a similar attack on April 11. Over 300 were arrested. Israel has escalated such violence since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers had stormed the mosque compound on Sunday. This was done to clear the area for a visit by Zionist extremist groups to mark the Jewish holiday of Passover. The visit had been widely condemned as a provocative act. Jewish settlers proceeded to perform religious rituals at the mosque site in complete violation of established laws. Several Israeli raids were also reported across Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. April 17 also marked the Palestinian Prisoners Day. Protests were held in different parts of the occupied territories and Gaza to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli forces opened fire at the demonstrations in Hebron and Bethlehem enduring at least two people. According to Human Rights Group, a damir 4,450 Palestinians are being held in Israeli occupation jails. This includes 160 children and 530 administrative detainees who are held without charge or trial. Since the start of 2022 Israel has arrested over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them from Jerusalem and Geneva. And finally, we take a look at the rising threats against Brazil's Amazon. The rainforest has been under attack not only by the state but also a network of environmental crimes. Brazilian NGO Igarape Institute analyzed hundreds of police operations in the region between 2016 and 2021. 50% of these were linked to criminal organizations, among the crimes documented by the institute were slave labor, illegal mining, land grabbing, corruption, and money laundering. Here is a video by Brazil de Fatou on Igarape research and findings. The environmental devastation became big business linked to violent crimes, financial frauds, corruption, and even drug trafficking. Research by Igarape Institute mapped these ecosystems of criminality in the legal Amazon. 369 operations that had the participation of the federal police were analyzed. Looking at environmental crime, we realized that it needed a lot of resources to operate, including in the case of illegal gold mining. They have work in equipment and the logistics to get to where the environment crimes happen. So, there is a powerful structure financing these crimes. There is the crime activities group, the crime agents, and we have been seeing that because the state and the security agents pay little attention to it, this kind of crime becomes attractive to other criminal groups. And we also know, we can forget to mention, that a very vulnerable group of people are exploited because of these activities. According to Igarape Institute, almost a third of the operations in the Amazon were related to violent crimes against people, slave labor, drug trafficking, or the possession of guns, ammunition, and explosives. And the frequency of these crimes is increasing. People cog red-handed with firearms, ammunition, and explosives, for instance, more than doubled between 2016 and 2021. Often people look to environmental crimes and say, oh, come on, this is a less important crime. But what we actually have is that the seriousness of the harm and its range are going to bring consequences to the whole population. Therefore, it's a priority to place the fight against environment crimes at the top of the political agenda. And that's all for today's episode. For more such stories, visit our website, www.peoples-dispatch.org, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.


So we're here with the Edgewater and hi, so who are you? My name is Matt Massey. I'm the vice president of marketing with Edgewater wireless Yeah, so we started from the ground up and we have a multi-channel Wi-Fi chip set So we own our own silicon and we have 24 patents wrapped around our silicon all focused on one thing solving high-density Wi-Fi Here's some more information about what you're doing So it's been a big investment for a while It is so it's roughly 60 million dollars invested in developing the chip set and radio cards But what we enable though is we enable multiple channels of transmit and receive on a single radio So it's all Wi-Fi standards compliant But we're really talking about using the spectrum more efficiently and on a single radio We can do that by enabling three channels in 2.4 and three channels today in 5 gigahertz But you can only use one at a time and that's really the problem. Yeah, that's We can utilize three channels in 2.4 and three channels in 5 gigahertz And nobody does that when they do MIMO and everything like that Yeah, so MIMO isn't done at the hardware level So that's all things that are operated above that level with antennas or Algorithms or a very cool technology like beamforming within a high density environment a lot of the value of those technologies Like MU MIMO or beamforming they go out the window because the way the Wi-Fi protocol is written in the way Wi-Fi spec is written is that When a Wi-Fi radio Broadcasting in a high-density environment senses interference those wide channel configurations that benefit Architectures like 802.11ac or 802.11ax Those channel widths actually back off and very quickly you go back to traditional standards Wi-Fi So we said well, let's understand how a high-density environment works and let's build a more optimized Wi-Fi chip set and Radio to operate within those high-density environments So can you grab this? Can we go just over here? I'll let you just go over here Can you describe what is that? So this is the world's first multi-channel access point This access point can do up to six channels With only two radios Thanks to your chip set It's not possible Yeah, so it's not software configurable So we've got 24 patents layered around our technology and primarily focus on interference mitigation So the best way to use your technology is to have both the standard and receiver using the same chip set or no No, no, no, so everything is standards compliant So the device or the user has to do nothing on their end So we're still using the same standards compliant Wi-Fi. We're just using spectrum more efficiently So that means when you entered a room that has this hotspot the Wi-Fi is going to be better Wi-Fi will be better and you as a user will have no idea that there's anything no matter what device you're using phone laptop Whatever doesn't matter better somehow. It's just better. Yeah, absolutely because The the spectrum is a limited resource and you are like intelligently using it. Yeah, so we're optimizing the use of the available spectrum, right? So With high density, there's only so many channels available and within the unlicensed spectrum So what we do and we'll use 2.4 gigahertz as an example We take in the entire Wi-Fi spectrum We take in the entire 2.4 gig band and then we separate out our channels of transmit and receive and so is this a standard router It has a cake. Yeah connections and everything else here. Just come in. This is we've got this one as an empty one Yeah, yeah, what's going to be a price? What are those so price range can really matters what's under the hood not what the box looks like so prices can range anywhere from Eight to twelve hundred dollars on the low end up to five or six thousand dollars on the high end So that's really based on channel configurations everything else. So your market is a enterprise access access Primarily focused on enterprise retail venue event venue stadium But we're actually getting a lot of interest for the home market as well Is there anything about reaching further? Is that help when you do better use of the spectrum? No, so Reach is really with the unlicensed back Radio signals operate the way radio signals do we can't change any of that Really depends on the environment you're deploying in does how far the signal will reach Really what we're focused on is that spectrum optimization piece So places where it's very busy is great, right? Yeah, wherever there's a high user's like a trade show in here where if you tried to connect to the Wi-Fi right now It would be next to impossible how much better does it get with your solution because it's still gonna be a limit, right? There's a it was originally designed for the micro office, right the Wi-Fi. Yeah. Yeah, that's true Yeah, so yeah, so there's gonna be a limit even with your technology Does it make it like orders of magnitude better? No, so I mean Wi-Fi is a contention-based protocol and no matter who's making the Wi-Fi access point It really relies on physical science in order to operate So what we're focusing on is operating better in high-density So more devices connected is really what we're trying to solve That issue as well as being able to operate within a high interference environment Does your technology potentially work with other other types of that? Networks maybe 5G or something? Yeah, so great question So our patent portfolio of 24 patents is OFTM based and that means that there is the potential to take our patent portfolio And work them into a 5G product today. We're focused on solving the biggest issue in Wi-Fi Biggest issue which is Wi-Fi and high-density interference. I think it'd be great if there was something The similar size of a whole router or something like that that People would install and start building a 5G network That is like freeing it for everybody to use somehow, you know, your chips would be useful for that because you would be optimal Potentially. Yeah, I mean wherever you need to optimize spectrum You know it started off years ago Is that you know you'd go to the store and you buy your Wi-Fi router and you just install it in your home And you had Wi-Fi today everyone's becoming unlicensed Wi-Fi engineer and Wi-Fi is everywhere So Wi-Fi success is also its biggest problem In that if we're going to deploy the next generation of networks regardless of whether it's 5G LTE some LTE use some mix of all three We need to optimize our spectrum use and make it make it more efficient And that will all Help us all benefit from a better connected experience. So where's your company based company space in Ottawa, Canada? Is there really people working in the company? Yeah, so we're roughly 20 to 25 We keep a very lean tight focus on engineering and development. And that's that's our primary focus is is is on development So we've been around since roughly 2013 And focused on this Yeah, focused focused on solving Wi-Fi. Yeah All right So that's going to be an interesting conference for you, right? Are you launching? It is no so we actually launched this access point at the the Mobile World Congress last year But we've seen some significant traction of late. So we're we're really excited about this show


Today I'm here in Washington, DC to meet up with a great friend of mine who's getting married very soon and by very soon I mean next month, so we've got to get a move on I'm gonna help him pick out his wedding attire and to do that We're going to suit supply Well, here we are. It's good to see you. I'm surprised you recognize me with the beard and everything you've changed a lot So I'm here with my very good friend Scott Devereux. We've known each other for eight years now Playing together in the United States Army Field Band Scott is a tuba player and we've been roommates when we've been on the road for Well the entire time you've been here so eight years You're the only roommate I've ever had Brian and now and now I'm getting a new room you're getting married I have a new roommate on the road because your future wife is also in the army field man, right? Exactly Yeah, tell us a little bit about how you guys met your story So we met at work and we've been friends for a really long time and then our friendship turned into something more So I'm really excited to transition from rooming with one great friend to rooming with my future wife Awesome, I've known you both of you guys for a very long time And I'm so excited for you guys to get married And we're here today to help you try and pick out the best wedding outfit now I know you have a little bit of an idea of what you're looking for But we're gonna what I'm gonna do is put together four different looks we're gonna go through a few different dress codes Four different dress codes to be specific black tie creative black tie formal and dressy casual We'll get y'all set up and see which one you like best. How's that sound? That sounds great to me? All right, so here we are with option one black tie very classic look We're going with a midnight blue tuxedo here because he said you didn't want black because Didn't want it to feel like a musician, right? You didn't want to feel like you're gonna go play the tuba you're getting married So really nice midnight blue. We have a grosgrain peak lapel the matching bow tie here cotton PK shirt and instead of a Cumberbund. We're going with the vest here I think it's a really great look with a patent leather oxford. How do you feel on this feels great? I mean you look like a million bucks feel like a million great options. So how about we try option two now Let's do it. All right Here we are Option two. I absolutely love this. It's a version of black tie, which we'll call creative black tie So you can do things a little bit different and I think the gray dinner jacket looks fantastic We have a self-facing shawl lapel. This is a cotton silk fabric Self-facing button jetted pockets you know You said you didn't like you wouldn't have chosen this for yourself, but yeah, it feels great now that I have it on Right wasn't expecting to like it, but I do I think it looks fantastic now instead of doing the classic tuxedo shirt and bow tie We're going with the turtleneck here, which I think is great for it looks very elegant very chic We're going with a black tuxedo trouser here patent leather oxfords once again. I think this is a great look It's got to be in the running. Yeah, it is All right Here we are with option three which is going to be for a formal dress code now formal attire Does not need to be complicated, but you need to nail the basics. That's a tailored suit Dress shirt and a tie and I think we've got it down pat right here. So color-wise. We're doing something very classic We've got a charcoal gray suit can never go wrong with that. We've got a notch lapel here So very classic as well conservative flat pockets. It's a two button crisp white dress shirt white pocket square to match and then we've got a little bit of a Off-white cream colored knit tie, which I think is great as a little bit of texture into the look now It is formal.  It's no cuff and then kind of taking the formality Down just slightly with the color of the shoes. They're not a deep brown But I think it's a really nice in between could be perfect for your event Option for we have dressy casual now. There are many ways that you can go with dressy casual Let's talk about what we've got going on here So we've got a flannel sport coat and a nice sand color beautiful Got a natural shoulder here notch lapel Jetted pockets and a three roll to button underneath. We've got it paired with a simple white ocbd again keeping it kind of casual now we're wearing a Light gray flannel VBC fabric trouser. Now this has a single reverse pleat We've got side adjusters instead of belt loops the bottom finishing here I've got a four centimeter hem also looks really casual drapes really well with this fabric on your feet We have a dark brown suede derby with a wingtip and broguing underneath giving a little bit of depth here We've got this vest which has a little bit of personal meaning to you absolutely. So we've got our four options I think it's going to be tough to make a choice, but why don't you get changed and we'll see what you come out with? All right now for the moment of truth deciding which outfit it's going to be option one We had black tie full tuxedo midnight blue super timeless and classic always a great choice option two Creative black tie dinner jacket a little more casual than tux still very formal very chic option three Formal look with a suit great option, especially with a perennial suit You can wear again and again and again and finally number four We had dressy casual sport coat odd trousers and the addition of a vest so What's it going to be so the first look? I really love the color the midnight blue is a twist on something that I wear a lot in the tuxedo But the blue really set it off for me I love how I felt in that one number two was actually kind of a surprise for me because I would never choose to wear a Turtle neck personally, but once I put it on it felt really great It's kind of turned into a dark horse number three felt super polished classic suit. I loved it fourth look I really love because it fits the vibe that we're going for it's really casual, but also adventurous and I also love all the textures involved in that look. It's really nice and I love incorporating the sentimental piece That means a lot to our relationship so What's it going to be well rum roll I'm gonna go with the fourth look I think it's a great option I love everything you said about it. I love that there's a sentimental attachment you have with it You're gonna look great Thanks, so one thing I wanted to say Is that so something I'd like to do for you as a gift for your wedding and we really think suits apply for this as well Is you looked great in everything? So we're actually gonna give you all four of the looks oh saw today Wow That's that's really amazing. So if you change your mind between now and then you'll be able to suit So I'm really thankful for our friendship. I wish you and Erica all the best. So Yeah, can't wait for it. Oh, thanks, Brandon. I appreciate that


Well, good evening everybody and welcome to all the participants who have joined us for tonight's webinar and also the viewers who are watching this on the recording afterwards. MHPM would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians the land season waterways across Australia upon which our webinar presenters and participants are located. We do wish to pay our very sincere respects to elders past present and future for the memories, the traditions, the cultures and the ongoing hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. Steve Trumbull is my name. I'll be facilitating tonight's session. I'm a GP by background, most recently working in the unheard remote communities of the Northern Territory, but also professor of medical education at Melbourne Medical School. But if we look at tonight's panel, they're the people you hear to hear to hear from tonight about the impact of trauma on the physical body. It's a great panel. You've seen their biographies disseminated earlier, so we won't go through those in detail. But just to quickly acknowledge each person, Andy Maloney. Hello, Andy. Welcome. You're a science physiologist and you've recently completed your Masters of Mental Health. So tell us what were your intentions in doing that degree when you began it? It was at the beginning of COVID and there was two parts to it. One was I was a new father and I wanted to take further steps in understanding my own emotional health and well-being so I could pass on some healthy traits to my daughter, Freddie. But second, I kind of got to the point where I was just the statement of exercise is good for mental health. It wasn't enough for me anymore and I wanted to investigate it further. And I started my Masters of Mental Health at SCU with professor Richard Lakeman and that was the lens of for many of my essays and reports was how does exercise influence mental health and mental illness. And part of what I've learned is what we're going to talk about tonight. Great. Well, that's great to have you with that background. And I must say being a bit of parents, one of the best reasons for the high studies I've ever heard. So good on you. Great to have you. Now, we've also got Lou Curley. So hello, Lou. You're an occupational therapist based here in Victoria as am I and he's in Queensland. Now you've undertaken a PhD looking at sensory processing. Can you tell us how what impact that's had on your practices and OT? Yeah, thanks, Steve. So my PhD looked at sensory processing and how it shapes and gets shaped by our relationships and experiences in childhood. It was a pretty sort of theoretical PhD with sort of a focus on quantitative research, but we did develop a model towards the end of it that we call the dyadic model of sensory modulation, which we found was a really practical way of working with children and families to help them sort of explore and unpack their own experiences within like the parenting dyad with the child to understand how both the child and parents sensory processing needs might impact their relationship and the quality of that relationship. So it was a way of sort of exploring ideas sort of co-regulation. And what I found when I started doing some work with families, particularly families of young neurodiverse children, was that it was a really gentle way into doing relational work and work around attachment, which can be a really sensitive area. So talking about our senses was really powerful. Now, fabulous. Well, that really does set you up well for tonight. So looking forward to hearing from you. And also Felicity Dublick, who's a physiotherapist now Felicity, you've studied at University of Sydney, University of Queensland and also University of Melbourne, where I'm from, you did pelvic health. So what your pelvic physiotherapist, what continues to draw you to that particular area of practice? Yeah. Hi, Stephen. Hi, everyone. Yeah, it kind of took me a bit of my career to land in pelvic health. I originally started in pediatrics and working in child and adolescent acute psychiatry, as well as persistent pain at Sydney Children's Hospital and worked with many children and many families who had had really, really challenging, challenging experiences, and that had either manifested in mental health concerns or physical health concerns such as persistent pain. And it was when I became a mom, to be honest, that I started to become more interested in pelvic health and kind of the stars collided and looking at the issues that are arising within our populations that are experiencing particularly pelvic dysfunction and pelvic pain through that lens of how I'd kind of grown up in mental health and psychiatric services was really fascinating and incredibly helpful. So right now my work really focuses on people experiencing persistent pelvic pain and I've got a special interest in endometriosis and sexual dysfunction. Great. And certainly that background is spot on for the case that we're looking at tonight that's been disseminated to the audience. So you'll obviously have a lot to say about the particular issues going on there. So as you can see, my experience put together the most brilliant panel of people to talk to us about this topic tonight. I'm intending to learn an enormous amount. So let's get into it. 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Now, we do have the case, but what's going to happen is that each panelist will give a short discipline specific presentation and then we'll get into questions and answers and conversation between the panel, which I'm sure will be pretty vibrant. The learning objectives are there and you can see that the aim is about looking at latest innovations. This is the third in our series of trauma-informed practices and we're particularly looking at how we can sustain these activities, these practices in the real world. Learning outcomes are about particularly looking at physical health and looking at the short and long-term impacts on the physical body. Looking at the different types of impact the trauma can cause and how you as practitioners can respond. And finally, for me, what's always the most important one, how to communicate effectively with other mental health practitioners to better support people through a team approach. Those who are experiencing physical symptoms resulting from their trauma. So that's all the background and getting into it. If you do run into problems, please do contact the staff via the button down the bottom there and off we go. So we'll start with Andy. Andy, you're going to present to us from the exercise physiologist perspective. Rip in, friend. Great. Thanks, Steve. Yeah, so exercise physiologist perspective. I suppose that perspective, like I said before when it came to my research was to look at how does movement influence the outcomes when it comes to mental health and mental illness. And so today the first couple of slides are going to be setting up the theoretical sort of underpinning to what I'm going to talk about with the case study and Sarah. And then a bit of an overview about how running is effective at regulating these systems. So if everyone's not aware, there's in 1998, there was a fantastic study that was the adverse childhood experiences study in 1998 with Folletti et al. And they found that those who had, there was a large, large survey and they found that those who had experienced for more childhood adversity experiences and that could be physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. Social determinants also have been expanded into this. There were significantly higher rates of physical illness, mental illness within within this first study, suicidality, especially as well. This, this, this study has been built upon recently with the Australian child maltreatment study, finding that one in four Australians have experienced three to five adverse childhood experiences also. And there has been study after study finding that there is a strong relationship between age related disease and, and childhood adversity. And so when I first came across this as an exercise physiologist, seeing the list of physical and mental health conditions, these are the, these are the people in our community that we work with. We work in persisting pain, cardiovascular disease. As movement professionals were never really told that there was this potential underlying experiential reason that that increases the likelihood to the development of these conditions. We, we put it towards more lifestyle choices. And, and since then I've really sort of changed my thinking towards that is because the behaviors such as being inactive smoking, high sugar intake or fast food intake or drug use. They are in my mind now they are safety behaviors. They're the best tool that that individual had at that time to regulate their sense of self their emotions and to keep them feeling in a place of calm. So from there, I wanted to understand if there was such a range of metabolic conditions, cardiovascular conditions, mental illnesses, what was the common factor that was underlying all of this. Surely it wasn't all due to just behavioral elements and causing such a wide range of illness and disease. Surely there was something underneath that that was physiologically occurring that potentially increase the likelihood towards the development of these illnesses and diseases and as we can see Sarah experienced for adverse childhood experiences. And I must say I'll also prefix this as I have a extreme amount of gratitude and empathy to work alongside and learn from those with lived experience and in the case tonight, even though I'm talking science and I'm talking about evidence. There is still you know it's a made up case study but this is still it is still a case study and this is still a person so please understand that some while I might get science at points. I have immense empathy and gratitude so next slide please and I need some more. Okay, so that brings us to the allostatic model. So if anyone hasn't heard of this. There's a history to the to the current sort of contemporary understanding of allostasis and allostatic load beginning in the early 1900s, Claude Bernard determining that we had this internal milieu that this internal system was able to regulate itself so hormonally neurotransmitters. They then found that so then that led to Walter B. Cannon then labelling homeostatic homeostasis was that the internal system had this ability to when it moved away from say blood pressure for example moved away from a set point. There would be negative feedback loop and it would regulate it back to this ideal set point. And then we move into the last 20 years. Joseph Iyer, Joseph Iyer and Peter Sterling brought to us also Hans Shale as well with the general adaptation syndrome. Allostasis was was bought into terminology by by Peter Sterling and what it allowed us to understand is that rather than the internal system being this homeostatic system which moved from a set point and regulate itself. The allostatic understanding is that it's actually adaptable to our experience and our internal system learns from our experiences to better protect us within future experiences by allocating energy to certain systems so whether that's endocrine system immune system neurological system. It is it is a learned it is a learning system and allows us to keep on learning and keep on adapting to our environment. If that environment like we see in the case of Sarah has early adversity that has significantly disrupted sense of safety trust autonomy empowerment, all these things that sort of come into a trauma informed model. We know that those systems become highly sensitized to set safety and threat. I kind of deem it as like a volume dial. So in an allostatic state where these systems are starting to become dysregulated. So the neuro endocrine immune system is a highly integrative system and that is our allostatic system. Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett also calls it the visceral motor system. There's a number of names for it. So what happens is that if someone is experiencing some form of stress within their life and they have had an experience of a lot of adversity through their childhood, their potential for their volume dial to ramp up and to dysregulate their immune system endocrine systems like stress systems, neurological systems can really ramp up. And that's why we see over a cumulative period of time. Dr Bruce McEwan then started then labeled that allostatic load. So the cumulative effects of stress on these allostatic systems has shown to be significantly high in those who had experienced aces, those who have with mental illness, severe mental illness. And so we start to see that that relationship between adverse childhood experiences and the diagnostic later conditions we see and the allostatic load that you see here as well. We see the same system. So cardiovascular system, metabolic system, neurological system and immune system. So we're starting to understand that it isn't just these behavioral adaptations that people go through to regulate themselves. There is actually underlying physiological adaptations that we have to understand better because the homeostatic theory doesn't apply to these these variable allostatic systems. And the reason why we look at this is because if we continue to see these allostatic systems as systems that should be clamped and held back. That's what we see high rates of itrogenesis, high rates of comorbidities, high rates of ongoing multimorbidity because we're clamping down these adaptive systems and it's just causing a lot of dysregulation within these systems. So we need to learn how to better communicate to them and better treat them from an allostatic perspective. Next slide please. So how is the trauma informed? How is allostatic model trauma informed? It means that we have to understand that per individuals narrative. We have to listen. We have to understand the language, their understanding of their experience, the perception of their experience, the perception of their health care experience, especially to ensure that we provide a sense of safety because sense of safety isn't just this global term. It's Dr. Johanna Lynch has a fantastic book about this. Make sure you do read it. But it is an individual, biocultural, spiritual, existential, sociodemographic experience. So what is the sense of safety for one person is completely different for the next person. So the allostatic model requires us to understand the individual and operate from a person centered strengths focused narrative approach. Because if we understand that, then we understand the individual and what is safety and trust and empowerment to them. And so how we can interpret Sarah's story is that we have, how I interpret it, if we've read the case study, as I see a brilliant young woman who's taken incredible agency over her life and over the choices in her life. She has excelled in academia at certain points when her environment felt safe around her. She wants to express herself. She wants to move into the creative world of being a chef. She has a relationship which Felicity will talk about. So I see a really empowered young woman. And if I was to see Sarah, she was to come into me. And I was to see that there was a history of chronic fatigue syndrome and having some persisting pain. All that does is for me just creates an awareness. Okay, there is a system here. There is an allostatic system that is starting to increase into an allostatic state. So it's starting to communicate to her. It's an emotion system. And so, but she's taken a choice. She wants to start running. She's been told that running would really help her. And my job as a health professional is to not add any more barriers to that. Not add any fear-based education to what she should or shouldn't be able to do. If she asks me what she can be doing, then certainly I will interpret that and work with her. But yeah, I see a brilliant young woman and it would be great to work with someone like this. Next slide, please. So how I deem running or aerobic exercise, I give it under the label of inner resilience. So the systems that are involved in our allostatic systems, they are stress response or safety systems or survival systems, threat systems, neuroception, polyvagal theory kind of labels it like that. So what we understand is that if the, especially the HBA axis, which is our cortisol response system, if there is a prolonged period of time where that is being punitively used, what happens is that we start to see in some cases like in Sarah's, it starts to become suppressed over a period of time. And we see that there is a there is a relationship between chronically suppressed HBA axis or cortisol and the likelihood towards chronic fatigue syndrome and persisting pain. Like I said before, it has to do with a neuroendocrine immune system. It's a bigger conversation that will move through things as quickly as we can. So inner resilience, these systems function well if they're running efficiently. They require oxygen that they're all in your brain. So they require oxygen, they require a glucose. So when it comes to when it comes to what running does for the individual provides an efficiency to their stress response system. It's protective against stress, psychosocial stress. There's research in psychological stress reactivity, which is showing that we're finding there is a buffering that we find if for those who are more aerobically fit to those who are not. And we also find that there is there's there's this theory coming through. It's called cross stress or adaptation is that if we can increase the level of aerobic fitness with an individual that has a layover towards psychosocial settings. So for Sarah's example, she wants to move into the kitchen. And if anyone's ever worked in a kitchen, it's a stressful environment, but it's a use stress. It's a positive stress for her. But nonetheless, if we understand that Sarah's system can become hypersensitized to chronic exposures to stress. We don't need to tell Sarah this, but if she has an efficient cardiovascular system or efficient static buffering system with resilience, then then it will not have the same detrimental accumulative wear and tear effects that someone who may not be exercising at that time. So it's a protective way to look after their system.  It's not about it's not about weight loss. It's not about a six packets about the efficiency of your stress response system and how protective that is towards the cumulative effects of of your experience. And so for Sarah to know that she she can be a power to, you know, to understand her body and at times, you know, checking in with her body to use today a run day or today a day where I go through some breath work or some some inner flow works and some so you know, give some technique or just a walk with a friend. So the education would be giving her the tools to actually understand what's in a cup to be able to build up, you know, increase a window of tolerance and all that. So inner resilience is the is the sort of the label that I give to to aerobic exercise now. Next slide. And so the last one, you know, why work with an exercise physiologist. So there are a number of exercise physiologists who are very keen to move into their mental health setting. You know, we're four or five year university educated exercise specialist we operate with we can assess we can prescribe in accordance with certain models of care. If you're looking to collaborate with an exercise physiologist I would highly recommend it and I would probably ask them a couple of questions do they understand what trauma informed care is. There's a likelihood that they may not because this is fairly new for our field as well although I'm going to be developing a professional development platform regulate physical health please check it out the end. But I work with and have colleagues who are fantastic clinical professionals who who just within themselves operate within trauma informed principles. And so asking them, you know, who do you like to work with. You'll either get an answer of I like to work with people with ACLs and hamstrings and this and they they're a bit more of a clinical exercise physiologist. But then if you understand their treatment method and how it is that they communicate and if they use fear based education to be able to sort of will it down or is this someone that I would refer to. If someone has a strong history of adversity or if they say I like to work with an individual in their experience and I want to just work with the person then you've got someone who's a bit more clued into working with from a person centered approach. And find someone who's passionate about their modality so it could be on the gym based exercise physiologist so that's my approach but it's not for everyone so I'm not forcing people to move into those settings but we want to provide a trauma reforms within my business trauma informed approach to say look come in the door. Check it out. Let's see what we can work with. And if you do want to stay, please do if not let's develop a fantastic home based program or whatever it may be so yeah I hope that's helpful and on to the next. Thanks so much indeed and in fact I'm going to quickly jump in with a question that Kelly writes us because it does tie into what you said you mentioned about systems being clamped down do you mean by things that us GPs do with beta blockers and that sort of stuff we we block the normal physiological response. Yeah yeah so clamping down an adaptive system then the the inner system the brain that in a million doesn't understand that that is being clamped down so it drives other other markers so blood pressure you've got now you're going to ruin my memory. There's three functions to blood pressure you clamp down one the other two get get driven. So what happens is you then start to clamp down clamp down clamp down these adaptive systems they then no longer become they know they decrease their capacity for adaptation so there is the likelihood of exercise intolerance and stress intolerance because these adaptive systems which are trying to communicate to the person. Emotionally I no longer talking to them so there's this sort of disconnects from from the inner self and from the experience which is what Claude Bernard really thought of that the inner system as this sort of home aesthetic system that wasn't adaptive to our experience that we're now seeing that those who have a lot of adversity within that childhood had significantly higher rates so it seems to be that you know social determinants of health hierarchy of needs all these sort of you know experiences and exposures does increase their likelihood to illness and disease however. I didn't really talk about it but protective factors and coping strategies are significantly helpful so someone like Sarah has had her mother it seems she has a relationship she has agency shows you personally has personality traits that are really empowering for her so she's making. She's having incredible decisions through her life and so she has a number of protective factors around her which is why she's talking with with us so that the trauma isn't is an illness illness progression it is an experience that does create a saliency or a valence to our emotion systems. But if we learn how to communicate to it now therapies provided in our relationship to provide it now culture provides it from a trauma informed approach then we can see that these systems no longer need to feel threatened all the time they can feel engaged and part of something which is what we all want is just to feel loved and part of something so. No thanks Andy you've you've challenged everything I do as a GP with my pills and potions so good. Lou let's hear the OTS perspective on this case thanks very much. Thanks Steve so I'll give the OTS perspective but in particular looking specifically in terms of sensory processing. So to start with sensory modulation refers to our ability to get the just right sensory input that we need throughout the day. It's what we can do to help ourselves feel calm and regulated but it's also how we respond adaptively to environments when they feel like they're too much it's overwhelming it's too hot too loud or they're not enough we need more stimulation we need more input. And we could see for Sarah like from a young age she seemed to have quite a clear idea of what her sensory processing needs were and whether it was through dance through play. She was meeting those needs sensory modulation not only shapes but also gets shaped by our relationships and experiences and so we'll talk about how experiences of trauma as well as the broader experiences of adversity that Sarah Sarah experiences. Shape her sensory modulation. So in doing so what we can do is we can start to sort of untangle Sarah's relationship to her body over her life. And I think what's important here is to see sensory modulation not just in terms of what's happened as a result of her traumatic experiences but create a more coherent narrative throughout her life. With Sarah we can also talk about sensory modulation in terms of windows so sort of drawing on Dan Siegel's ideas of a window of tolerance we can apply that to sensory modulation. And we can have a look at how experiences of adversity and trauma narrow a person's window and what they can tolerate but also experiences of co-regulation and safe experiences can widen that narrow widen that window. Next slide. So we know that trauma can have both generalized and also sensory specific changes in the body. Something like sexual abuse which we know she's experienced can directly lead to localized experiences of hypersensitivity and pain but they can also lead to hyposensitivity so an absence of sensation. Similarly verbal abuse and we know that she was in a very volatile household can lead to altered sensory auditory detection. So we can become once again hyper or hyposensitive to sound but also that broader adverse childhood environment that she was in can more broadly alter her generalized sensory reactivity. The strength and size of reactions that she has to the environment and that might be that they're dampened down or they can be really elevated as well. So we can't really anticipate based on someone's trauma exactly how they're going to present and what they're going to experience and instead we have to work with them and listen with our clients to get a picture of what their experience of this trauma is going to be. Another way of making sense of this is through exploring interoception which is how we make sense of our body signals. The signals we get from our body which tell us how we're feeling and what our body is doing. What Sarah has seemed to experience is this profound sense of disconnect from her senses and we can sort of see that manifesting as she's gotten a little bit older as well. Where as she's older she's experiencing that exhaustion but she's not necessarily able to put a name on exactly what it is. She's also been told things throughout her life like when she was bullied to just ignore them and she was taught not to trust herself or what her body was telling her. Next slide. So one of the ways I explore this with clients directly is in terms of their sensory modulation window. So that's the green band in the middle and we can see the line varies depending on the amount of sensory input that a person is getting over time. So depending on the sensory input they're getting based on the environment they're in they might move from within to outside of their sensory window. So they might become hyper aroused overwhelmed when the environments become overstimulating or under aroused if there's not enough input. And when we're able to regulate ourselves really well we can conceptualize that as having quite a wide window where we can tolerate a really wide band of sensory inputs. But depending on our experiences in childhood as well as our natural sensory processing patterns that we're born with we might have a particularly narrow window. We might have a really high window where we actually need lots of input which it sounds like initially Sarah did. Or we might have a really low window where we can only have to tolerate a small amount of input. Next slide. So how is Sarah's sensory modulation window changed over time? We can sort of think of Sarah's window as having narrowed over her experiences of ongoing adversity, the lack of potentially positive experiences of co-regulation as well as through distinct experiences of abuse and trauma. So she's able to tolerate a smaller range of stimuli but she also seems to be less aware of her signals and what her body is telling her. So she's spending a lot of time outside of her window. She's feeling hyper aroused or hyper aroused. And what this can do as we saw with Andy was there's that build up of allostatic load spending that time in a state of fight or flight or freeze is going to lead to a build up of allostatic load at all levels of the body. This can also contribute to a feeling of dysregulation of disconnection from your body and has impacts for our relationships and how we connect with others. It also has an impact on our identity where we're feeling out of control or that we're not connected to our body as well. Next slide. So I think it's really important that we focus on using strengths-based supports when we're working with Sarah. While we're talking about primarily sensory-based approaches here, I think as an OT as well it's important that we work with Sarah and think about what it is that she really wants to do and what is it that her body needs. We can see that her body needs movement, it needs input, it needs stimulation. And so whether that's through running and engaging with someone like Andy in terms of exercise physiology, but also as an OT we can start to explore what is meaningful activity for Sarah. We know when she was young, she really loved to dance, she loved to be outside, she loved to be artistic. So some of those strengths-based supports might be explicitly through those areas. What we can also do is we can start to untangle some of that chronology for her and with her. So we can reclaim some of those childhood sensory patterns that she had and explore a positive relationship to her neurodiversity as well. So we know that she loved all of those things and that she had a sensory identity before these experiences of trauma and adversity. We can also start to recontextualise some of those experiences and in terms of her body's reactions and responses to them that while they may be manifesting and challenges at the moment, they may have been what helped her stay safe at the time. All of this can give us quite an integrated understanding of her current sensory patterns, which might be helpful in helping her create this sort of coherent narrative. We can also do some work with her to start to safely reconnect with her body. So starting to explore interception and that capacity to notice body signals and what they're telling us. Being able to notice when maybe I'm starting to feel overwhelmed rather than I've already gone into a freeze or fight a flight. And starting to reconnect and link our body back to those feelings and experiences.  So it's really essential that we're focusing on that trans-disciplinary approach and recognising that any work that we might be doing around interception. We're also engaging with our psychologists as well as our pelvic physios to make sure that we're doing that in a really safe and great way. At the same time, given that we know that she's in a relationship and she's had this challenging upbringing as well, we can start to explore sensory windows. Not only in terms of what hers looks like, but how they match and potentially mismatch with those around her. So she can see and explore the fact that it's not just her, she's not the only one that has sensory modulation and maybe difficulties in some areas. But it's something that everyone holds and that can start to normalise it. So I'll just finish by saying that we've really and we all are really zoning in on that idea of the body. I'm zoning in on the idea of sensory processing and we're really looking closely at Sarah as an individual. But it's really important that we continue to place her in a broader context, whether that's in a family and a relationships, as well as exploring her place within the community and potentially her interactions with services. She's had these traumatic experiences and this adversity, but she's also potentially experienced recurrent cases of being let down by the services that have been asked to support her when she was younger. Given she's experienced abuse and trauma, but hasn't seemed to get the help that she needed when she was younger. So it's important to place that and recognise when she's coming to us as practitioners as well.  Thank you. There was a game spot on for what we need for this case. So very grateful to you and we'll certainly explore some of the questions that have been asked when we get to that part of the presentation or part of the evening. But before then let's hear from Felicity about the physios perspective on this. Thanks Felicity. Thank you. So such a huge topic so much to unpack and I'll do my best to talk through my piece and then look forward to questions later. And I thought I'd start with this beautiful quote from the phenomenal Bessel van der Kolk who I'm sure you're familiar with. If you're not go and look him up. The single most important issue for traumatised people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies. I'll let that sink in. Next slide please. And I just like to start with a conversation around safety versus threat. So responding to real or perceived threats in our environment in our environment or within ourselves or in our relationships is an incredibly and profoundly physical task. And trauma does set the stage for an overactive threat detection system. That then requires various outputs from our nervous system to try to promote safety and survival for ourselves. We're probably all familiar with the concepts of fight, flight, freeze and collapse mode. And these are incredibly adaptive and useful mechanisms from our nervous system to keep us safe. But when they are persistently activated and this ties in beautifully with everything Andy was talking about in terms of that allostatic load, the system changes and our nervous system becomes wired differently. We can talk about HPA access dysregulation and the chronic cortisol production that can then significantly impact all of our body processes and there's very fascinating research on cortisol dysregulation. In the early days very much high cortisol levels and then sometimes a bit of a caput on that system that leads to the very low cortisol levels that we may have seen in Sarah with her experience of chronic fatigue. That physical tension, inflammation and immune dysfunction can really, really become apparent. Next slide. So when we're thinking about safety versus threat, what are the different safety outputs from our brain that can occur? Especially if we're perceiving threat all the time. And now this is going to be incredibly unique to the individual. And I think it's nice to step back and think about the variety of physical health complaints that we might see in the clinic as physios, as GPs, as various health practitioners. That we might see a certain tendency towards a hypervigilance and hyper sensitivity, whether that's to external stimuli or from sensations within ourselves. There might be patterns of bracing and closing down and as physios, we commonly see this in those protective muscle groups. Think about how do we get into that very protected position? We feel jaw, chest, hips and pelvic floor. These muscle groups are really commonly rigid and tense and causing dysfunction in people who have had adversity and that persistent HPA axis. Drive. We could also have an output of feeling on edge and revved, again, that hypervigilance. But we can also feel pain more. We can feel tired more. We can feel numb or checked out. And these can be considered as symptoms, but they can also be considered as safety messages that are trying to get that person to a safe situation. Next slide. And so I found the work of Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana, who's really taken his theories into a more practical realm. Incredibly helpful to really create a bit of a framework around how we can understand our own nervous systems and how we can regulate ourselves. And as clinicians, support our patients to start beginning to understand how their nervous system is regulating or dysregulating and how to move between these different states. And one thing I really like about this latter approach is that down the bottom here, we are placed in, we see placed the more immobilized parasympathetic dorsal vagal system where we're shutting down and we're low energy and we're numbing out and where we're kind of giving up. Our resources to be able to respond to the threat have been overwhelmed. And from here, the next level up in order to move out of that immobilized state is actually a mobilized sympathetic drive, more of a fight or flight. It's an action state. It's an energetic state. There might be some irritability and panicky sensations and tension here. There might be a sense of needing to act and change something right now that in itself can be dysregulation. But interestingly, that's the state we need to move a little bit into to come out of an immobilized state. And then top of the ladder kind of dreams date where we'd all kind of like to be where we can feel safe and centered and connected is that parasympathetic ventral vagal system. So I'd like you to kind of reflect on Sarah's history and where she's at and her history of adversity. And have a little bit of a think about the different points in time where she might have been in more of a mobilized state to protect herself, more of an immobilized state. And how as she's growing and as she's learning and as she's reaching out to different health professionals and searching for different relationships, she's able to find more periods of safety. And from whatever profession you're working in, how we might be able to use a ladder like this to help her understand where she's at and support her to move in the direction she needs to go in to create that sense of safety within herself. Next slide. So as physios and thinking more broadly about trauma and the body, we really commonly work with people that are experiencing pain and tension. And just to reflect on what are the populations that walk in the door and that we just feel, oh, this is going to be tricky. This is going to be tricky to treat or that horrible term treatment resistant populations. And maybe you can think in your minds now what that particular cohort might look like. Maybe they're the ones with very widespread symptoms. Maybe the pain isn't isolated, but it's kind of everywhere. Maybe there's lots of chronic overlapping conditions. Maybe there's a lot of physical and mental health comorbidities. But if we zoom out and step back and look at these patients through a trauma informed lens, sometimes things start to get a little bit more cohesive. Next slide. So I thought I'd introduce the topic of what we call central sensitivity syndromes, also called chronic overlapping pain conditions. And we can look through this and think, okay, we have chronic fatigue syndrome in here. We have some pelvic pain syndromes in here. We have some chronic tension syndromes in here, referring their diagram there to an interesting paper by Adams et al, which really talked about the biopsychosocial drivers of these syndromes. And I think when we kind of then reflect on those kind of tricky patients, that tricky cohort we were talking about, oftentimes these different conditions are showing up. And if we want to zoom out and think, okay, if these conditions, these overlapping pain conditions are all interconnected and it's common for people to present with a number of them, what's going on there? Next slide. And so the common denominator is, of course, the concept of no seoplastic pain and central sensitization. And this is all about our nervous system becoming increasingly sensitive and having altered functioning of our ascending and descending pain pathways. It's effectively a maladaptive neuroplasticity, which means our brain has become really, really good at doing or feeling pain. And it can lead to the interpretation of normal sensations to be painful, which we call aledinia, or somewhat uncomfortable sensations to be considered or sensed as very painful, which we call hyperalgesia. And that could be something like IBS where the sensation of just normal peristalsis can become quite painful. Or that could be the touch of clothes on the skin or underwear on the body or something like intercourse can become incredibly painful. And interestingly, the research and very makes sense to all of us working in the field. No seoplastic pain patients have much higher rates of emotional trauma and mental health diagnoses. Next slide. So getting to Sarah, we know that sexual abuse is a risk factor for pelvic pain. And in terms of the presentation, Sarah is experiencing vaginismus or we could call that a chronic persistent pain syndrome. We could call it vaginismus. We could call it provoked vestibular denia. She is experiencing a kind of sensory mode of dysregulation where she's quite disconnected to the muscles of her pelvis and pelvic floor. And she's not really aware of how to control these muscles. In addition to that, there's heightened sensitivity, other denia of these regions. So when she tries to be intimate with her partner, things are shut down, locked down, and she doesn't really know where to go with it. Next slide. So one thing I think is really important to point out is if Sarah walks into our clinic for an initial appointment and she's a resilient and courageous young woman, she's reached out and self-referred and showed up, we don't know her background. So is she going to disclose in our initial client interview her history of trauma? And from a pelvic physio perspective, it is essential that we take the time to really get an understanding of what's going on for our clients and the reason why we're there. And it's happened to me and it's happened to many of my colleagues that even with the best intentions, trauma histories haven't been disclosed and then a physical assessment has been incredibly challenging. So a couple of points that I like to always note is, A, of course, taking time with your history, asking about a bit about a patient timeline of when they started to connect the dots on these symptoms and how things started to develop and any other patterns of chronic tensions in their time. And also about asking the client, what do you think is going on here? Do you have any sense of what's driving this or informing this? And sometimes I find that's a really fantastic question to once you've built rapport and you have that nice warm therapeutic alliance that someone might actually say, well, you know what? This happened to me and I just feel like it's connected somehow. But then lastly, another essential question before a physical assessment. And I think this would be relevant to not just a pelvic assessment, but any assessment is, is there anything in your past that could make today's physical assessment difficult? That's also a really great question to ask to give another opportunity for someone to say, actually, yeah, there's something that's tricky in my past and I'm really freaked out about this assessment. So anyway, leading into what we're trying to do with Sarah, we're trying to help her feel in control of the process of therapy. And if we're talking pelvic floor physiotherapy, these are intimate exams and hands-on treatments, but they also don't have to be. And we can start much more broadly in a movement-based scenario with the goal of trying to create a sense of safety within herself, somatic safety, and also, of course, trying to create safety within our therapeutic relationship. We want her to start to understand symptoms of dysregulation in her nervous system and understand that latter approach and start to build in some strategies so she's able to move back into feeling settled and safe. Because, of course, that's where we need her nervous system to be if intercourse, which is her goal, is going to be able to occur and then work with strategies to broaden out that window of tolerance for sensations previously perceived as threatening. So we would be doing lots of functional anatomy education to try to empower her and approach that sensory motor dysregulation and disconnect she has from her pelvis. We would be thinking about hands-off and then hands-on approaches and lots of mindful movement and exercising interventions to get her connecting to that part of her body. Next slide. And a little bit more of the details here, which perhaps we can skim through. I don't know, Steve, if we've got the time, yeah. But we're thinking about, what was that? Yeah, beautiful. I think it was second last slide. Building that safety, building that connection, thinking, looking, self-touch, therapist-touch, perhaps the use of modalities such as dilators or therawons or vibrators on her own. And when she feels safe on her own, then feeling into whether she's ready, again, within her control to integrating the treatment into the relationship with her partner with very clear boundaries and a latter approach as to what feels safe and when. So the partner knows his role. And treatment timeline is going to be incredibly unique to the patient. It could be six months. It could be three years. I saw someone this week in the clinic that I've been working with for three years and we've just done our first very successful manual therapy treatment where there was no dissociation. There was no disconnection. There was no distress. And it was a really fantastic outcome for her. So timeline, again, very patient specific. Next slide. And in terms of looking at, including a body-oriented approach to working with clients like this and that collaborative multidisciplinary care, you know, thinking about zooming out and taking a nervous system perspective on working with clients that seem to have lots of individual diagnoses that they're collecting and starting to feel very broken when we zoom out and find the common denominator and start working from a nervous system perspective, everything can really make sense. And make friends. Just make friends with your local physios, your OTs, your EPs, your yoga therapists, your gym trainers and people that have an interest in working and supporting people who have a trauma background to facilitate those cross-referrals and collaborative care. And that's me. Thanks. What a great way to finish up Felicity.  So thank you for that. Now the good thing is that the panellists have seen the questions that were asked before the webinar or during the registration process. So they've already answered a lot of the things that people were asking about in that process. I will move on to asking some of the questions that have come up during the conversation or during the presentations. I think possibly the first one is just a little bit more on inter-reception. And there was a question that came in from Frank, Frank, asking about where we are in terms of being able to assess inter-reception and particularly validated tools for that. And I think Lou, you might be the person to kick us off on that one. Yeah, thanks, Steve. It's a really good question. I mean, there are formalized assessments that have been developed for measuring and assessing inter-reception. In my experience, I take a real sort of client-led approach to measuring and assessing inter-reception, sort of using their own words and figuring out where they're at. And it's usually based on sort of a really sensitive approach to their body as well, considering what other experiences they might be having. I know in particular, I think it's important recognizing what other factors might shape whether inter-receptive work is appropriate for the client at this point in time. I know I worked with young autistic children and families. And sometimes we talk about sort of feeding interventions in that space and sometimes inter-receptive work and that tuning into the body is not actually going to be a really safe way of doing that. Similarly, I think someone had flagged that in the case of chronic pain, that disconnection from the body has actually been something that has kept them safe to an extent. And so doing inter-receptive work where we're noticing what our body's feeling isn't necessarily always the safest thing to do at that point. So I'd follow a client-led approach there in terms of exploring and assessing inter-reception. But I mean, Felicity, did you have anything else on that as well? Yeah, I was just racking my brain because I remember when I, can you guys hear me there? I remember when I was working in adolescent mental health, I was really keen to put some outcome measures into place for a mindful movement group I was developing. And there was an incredibly long, I think it was called the Inter-receptive Awareness Scale that I tried to get my 15, 16-year-old clients to fill in. And it was quite arduous and just a little bit too detailed. So that one I kind of gave up on. But I think it's a really important topic. And even if we're not able to put a specific assessment tools around it, it can be really brilliant to kind of educate around and work with from a therapeutic perspective. One specific measure that I'm using at the moment in pelvic health and in persistent pain management is the free mantle, the free mantle questionnaires. So you can do it with a back, you can do it with an ankle, you can do it with a shoulder, but there's also a perineal, free mantle perineal awareness questionnaire, free PAC, that's currently being validated. And that is all about measuring sensory motor dysregulation or disconnection to the pelvic region. And so that's the questionnaire that you give to someone and they fill it out and go, this is weird. I don't understand these questions. It makes no sense to me. And you're like, great, no dysregulation there. Whereas the people that fill it out and go, I feel so seen. Like, I have no idea what's going on in that part of my body. I can't even feel anything below my rib cage. Like that questionnaire made me feel like someone else is experiencing what I'm experiencing. So those free mantle questionnaires I found really helpful to help identify people who just aren't connecting and then set some specific treatment targets about how to get there. We permitted the answer to a question that just popped up from Jen Kosell who asked exactly a question about neuroplastic pain and what we can use to measure that. Andy, what are your thoughts about this? So interception, again, from an alastatic understanding is that these systems are our emotion systems and our internal system is always trying to communicate to our conscious self. And if you're tapped into that, you can be aware to it or if you're not used to it and you can dissociate so there's this gap between them.  And so providing it with language, so providing it with some emotional granularity, which is to, I did it with a client at the start of the week. We got the emotion wheel out and we just talked about what was their experience at the moment because their physical body was really starting to become quite heightened, quite sensitive, quite protective. Effecting asleep, behaviors were starting to become quite heightened.  And we identified that within that emotion wheel that the body was trying to say that it was in a state of fear because we sort of directed a lot of the current situation towards fear elements. So I had it on my phone, what do we pick up? We saw we labeled scared, anxious, helplessness, frightened, overwhelmed, worried, nervous. And there's a number of issues she's going on and there's a strong trauma history for this client as well. So what does fear mean to her? Understanding her experiences and understanding what she went through. Fear has a lot of power in her body and so the sensitivity that fear provides in her system, her interceptive system, it needed language, it needed to be heard. And us going through that strategy, I literally just used a laminated bit of on the emotion wheel and I just used a whiteboard marker to sort of highlight it out and I gave it to her to take home to reflect on. Later that day I talked with her trauma-informed yoga practitioner and she had a really great experience with labeling the interceptive experience of what her body was communicating. So it gave us some breathing space between the emotions and the thoughts. It allowed us to notice the thoughts and the feelings and experience rather than being fearful. She was noticing that she was fearful and then we had strategies from there. So it was a good tool to give that interceptive in a world of voice really and it needs some words. Thank you for that. And I did actually skip off quite quickly from the question about noceoplastic pain, Felicity, are there any other tools that you can just quickly recommend to the audience that might be useful? Yeah, look, I find in terms of patient reported outcome measures, the central sensitization index can be helpful. It's not a determinant that central sensitization is present, but it's an interesting screening tool. In addition to things like the Tampa scale of kinesiophobia, pain self-efficacy questionnaire, we can also do assessment of light touch. So is there aledinia hyperalgeasia present? The cotton swab test is one we use just in your cotton swab or Q-tip on the skin, whether that's pelvic or other where in the body. You know, two point discrimination, can someone sense where they're feeling sensation on the body and is that sensation heightened? There's some good outcome measures, questionnaires and clinical skills, clinical tools that I would often use. Excellent. Thanks for that. I just want to touch on a question that's coming from Susan Plats about fibromyalgia and asking how you would particularly support a client who has pain associated all over their body with fibromyalgia and where they have trauma but not quite sure if it's connected. Who wants to go first in how you might actually approach that person who's struggling with that situation? Happy to go there. Oh, there's Felicity. Okay, thank you. Good on you. Yeah, so this is fantastic that they're kind of connecting the dots there. They're not sure it's connected, but they're realizing that both these phenomena are present. Fibromyalgia again is considered one of the kind of hallmark, kind of gnosis plastic pain diagnoses. And so I would be counseling that, yeah, this is definitely connected, this sort of heightened sensitivity in the nervous system that has developed because of adverse experiences as a protective response as a safety output is now presenting itself through sensitivity to what is normal sensation. People with fibromyalgia would just say everywhere aches. I can't wear this bra. I can't sit on that seat. I can't do this, do that. It can be very, very widespread. And so when we start to try to chase the knee and the ankle and the neck and the jaw, it can be very overwhelming for the therapist as well as for the client. So zooming out and looking at that regulation ladder and looking at creating a sense of safety in your body, what would that be like? What would that feel like? Is there anywhere you can connect to in your body right now that feels safe, that feels neutral? Maybe it's the little finger, maybe it's the earlobe. And how can we start working with not necessarily mindfulness in terms of body scanning procedures? Because that can be quite overwhelming for clients. We're going into the body and paying attention to sensation. It's actually really scary and unpleasant, but some tools from the iris yoga nidra tradition can be really helpful here in terms of toggling between sensations. So a mindful way of searching out for a sensation of coolness versus a sensation of warmth, searching a sensation of tension versus a place where there is a sensation of ease. And starting to create some safety in accessing their body while bringing in gentle movement, bringing in breath work, bringing in cognitive strategies either through yourself. I love acceptance and commitment therapy and I bring that in all the time and engaging with your friendly social workers and psychologists who whoever else is working with that person to understand some different cognitive strategies you can be bringing into play to really be supporting that person to understand themselves as a whole that their pain is not an elbow problem and a knee problem and a back problem and a pelvic problem. But their pain is a pain system problem. They have a pain problem, not a knee, pelvis, back problem. And under that framework, kind of moving gently from there. Well, that touches on something I was going to ask Andy and Lou about the question from Susan Galasia about a client of hers with chronic fatigue syndrome. Using a heart rate monitoring watch to try and keep within a window of tolerance with their exercise. And the question coming up about whether this could maybe sustain a fear response or protective behavior of it to sort of deliberately keep somebody within that zone. Do either of you two have a thought about that? Andy looks like you're first up. My confused look, sure.  You mute. Can you? Sorry, you did come off the mute. I think when people are in a state where they feel like they're losing control of their sense of self and their ability to self-motivate, then providing tools that give them a sense of control and ownership such as the heart rate, whether it's heart rate variability and using that as a strategy to guide them can be helpful. So it's certainly something that I would recommend. My style of treatment is very, whatever we kind of determine at the time, it's very sort of flexible, adaptable. And I find from a trauma-informed perspective, that's always served me in a way. So if someone wants to talk about that and wants to use a tool and wants to sort of bring this through, then I'll talk with them about it and we'll think if it's a good idea for them and it's coming from them, then it's obviously a great idea. And if it sticks and it works, then it's a fantastic idea. So a degree of external control can be helpful. Yeah, they can be useful, particularly where it's been led by the client, but just being conscious and cautious as well in terms of how and why we're integrating that technology into what we're doing and what purpose it's serving as well. Like it can be a really nice indicator and prompt for the client, but also a consciousness about sort of the accuracy of things like biomarkers and what they are actually indicating. They aren't direct measures of these things. They are oftentimes when we're using something like a watch, they're an indicator of a biomarker. So just being conscious that it's not a replacement for some of all of that other work we're doing and that it's being led by the client as well. Thanks Lou. Now I've got one final question that I've been leading up to all night and one of our colleagues watching from Jerusalem, Walter has asked this question. I would like to ask the panel for what advice they can give on triaging the first approach to people in a war situation where obviously the lack of safety, the loss of safety, the existential crisis of being in that I can only think of a parallel here and working as a GP in Marysville after the fires in 2009. Any thoughts from the panel on how you would make the first approach to somebody whose whole world has just been torn apart in that way? I can start with that. There's a fantastic researcher here in Australia and exercise physiologist. His name is Dr. Simon Rosenbaum and he has done a lot of work in refugee camps and has been working with the communities within that. And very much directed towards sport, understanding the influence of culture and food and not labelling anything as a sort of an exercise or a gym. There's sort of this open-ended approach to how is it that we can create some sense of community safety and enjoyment through such adverse experiences and times. And you see the footage of the kids just going straight into it and then the adults doing that in that sense of play. And if you can get into a sense of play going through such adversity, then that's a fantastic work. So he's doing some great work there in that space. Thanks very much. Any other thoughts Felicity? Yeah. Just first, you know, how it goes out to you and your community who have been touched so deeply by what's going on over there.  So someone might have a level of resilience whereby they are doing better in their nervous system, even though they've seen something horrific compared to someone else who might not have seen as much but isn't coping. So for me, it would be looking at who's in freeze, who's numbed out, who's shut down on that latter scale that we were talking about, who's mobilized, who's vigilant, who's upregulated, and then how do we provide strategies to each of those kind of cohorts. So if we're upregulated, exercise, walk, push-ups, move, pull, push, kicking actions, all of those moves that you want to do to get that energy out can help to downregulate. Frozen, numb, checked out, grounding movements, feeling the body on the floor, feeling the touch of their hands on their body, gentle breath, and then getting some rhythmic movement happening, potentially cross-body movement happening to bring them back into their bodies would be the way to go there. So in terms of triaging, yeah, I would be thinking how do we block people into who's upregulated, who's numbing out, and how do we support them to move up, move down, if you like, into a more regulated place. All right, well, let's hope that we're not confronted by anything of that scale in this country, although things have been bad enough. So thank you so much. Now, it's time to hear final words from each of our panellists as we head towards the close of the webcast. So we'll probably, I think we should start with you, Lou, what are your final thoughts on this matter? Yeah, I guess we spend a lot of time sort of zoning in on the body and for me zoning in on sort of sensory processing and thinking about that case that we've just sort of explored as well that in terms of Jerusalem, that we need to place these things in a context as well and we need to take an intersectional approach to any of this work that we're doing. And so having a body-based approach and a trauma-based approach also means working with the whole of the person and the whole of their support network as well, whether that means also tapping into things like faith.  So while we're talking about the body and while we're talking about sensory processing, we're also considering those within the whole person and whether that's faith, whether that's interests, whether that's all of those things. So just because a person might need a particular type of sensory input or a particular type of body-based intervention, we can still focus that around what is meaningful to them, what motivates them in the case of Sarah, whether that's through things like dance and movement. Yeah, I'll finish with that. So thanks so much, Lou. Andy, what are your final thoughts? My final thoughts, I want to zoom out even further. And the theories that I've sort of spoken about before, there is this sort of fundamental shift and a paradigm shift that I think we can see moving forward that brings in towards physical, a better and a contemporary understanding of physical and mental illness and the experience of trauma within the body and what are the therapies that are associated with it. So the emerging theories of allostasis, predictive regulation, constructed theory of emotions, free energy principles. There is this paradigm shift that is coming within healthcare because these sort of classical models of understanding, so homeostasis or classical view of emotions, it makes it difficult for us to explain what we've been talking about tonight with those theoretical underpinnings. So as these new theories come through and as we provide research and we provide therapies based on this new contemporary theory, I think we're all here tonight to talk about how it is we're searching for something new and it's a fantastic thing to be a part of. Movement, I don't really use the term exercise, but movement is a fantastic strategy when it comes to regulating these systems. I kind of put it into three categories, so inner flow, inner resilience, inner strength, rather than sort of exercise or whatever it may be. So inner flow, that sort of mindful meditation trauma-based yoga, as you mentioned, IRS yoga. There are some fantastic strategies that exist within that field that are at a baseline to help people provide their sense of safety and orient them in space. Fantastic. In a resilience we spoke about and then inner strength is that the mastery of those inter-acceptive sensations that can come through with getting the body a little bit stronger and protecting against the tightness or the feelings that go along with that. So yeah, there's a new paradigm coming and it's great to be part of. Fantastic. Thanks so much. Felicity, the final word is yours. Oh, no pressure. I think I'd really love to see that when we're working with this trauma-informed framework, when we're seeing the person in front of us with a background experience of trauma, and we're seeing the pain or the physical dysfunction that they're presenting with, that we see that and we help the client see that as something that has been protective and adaptive for them and their nervous system at some point in their lives. Yet that's not serving them anymore and having creative conversations with them and inviting them to have creative conversations with themselves and their symptoms around, I hear you and thank you, but we're okay now. And building again that connection to safety within their bodies and stepping forward in treatment with their physical health concerns with a sense of, I can regulate my nervous system and I can create change in my pain system and I can create change in my body. Not just a list of diagnoses, but yeah, feeling more in charge. Thank you so much to everybody on the panel for what's been an excellent night's discussion to all the people who've attended and watched. I would also like to acknowledge Dr Johanna Lynch who's done a lot of work on the trauma-informed care webinars series with the design and delivery of the webinars and on behalf of MHPN. Thank you so much Johanna. Now survey, please don't forget the survey. 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