00:00Hobbling to the finish and gritting through the pain, Amber Bryant is embraced by friends
00:10and family in Broken Hill after a gruelling 500km run from Adelaide.
00:14I've got shin splints both sides, lots of burns from tapes and tough skin sprays, definitely
00:21never been this sore.
00:23Temperatures in the 30s tested the runner to her limits.
00:26So the weather was 10 degrees hotter than what it was meant to be, so that left us with
00:30only a 7 hour window to run in and all of those hours were in the dark.
00:35She was hospitalised with dehydration and had some near misses with trucks, forcing her to
00:40swap the road for a treadmill, but she was determined to clock up 500km, a feat she did
00:46in 9 days.
00:47Her body, even though it's a bit worse for wear, her getting through is obviously a testament
00:51to her hard work and mine.
00:53The pain worth the outcome, raising awareness for endometriosis, a debilitating condition
00:59she was diagnosed with in 2023.
01:01They just told me that it was just being a part of being female and so I dreaded going
01:08to the doctors because I thought they felt like I was making it up.
01:12While one in seven women like Amber have endometriosis, it can still be very difficult to diagnose accurately
01:17without surgery, something staff at the University of Adelaide are hoping to change.
01:22Because at the moment the scans are generally only available in quite specialised practices,
01:27which does limit the access to people.
01:29Establishing an ultrasound training program to help clinicians better identify the disease,
01:34which can cause crippling pain and infertility.
01:36And we're hoping with earlier diagnostics we might be able to not just alleviate some of
01:41the symptoms but also help prevent some of these effects that go on further.
01:47Increasing awareness one step at a time.
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