Elaine Miller

Elaine Miller aka Gussie Grippers is a Scottish physiotherapist, women's health campaigner and gender-critical activist. Miller performs comedy shows around the subject of women's health, highlighting issues related to urinary incontinence, Both her physiotherapy and her comedy feature a specialism in pelvic floor dysfunction. While working as a physiotherapist in Scotland Miller developed a comedy show designed to engage audiences in understanding how physiotherapy can be used to tackle and prevent urinary incontinence. She began her career in the field of sports physiotherapy, but after her own experience of becoming incontinent after having delivered three children, she began to focus on exercises for the pelvic floor. She has been invited as a contributing expert on women's health topics in UK media, including Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

Her show won 'Weirdest Show at the Fringe' at the Edinburgh festivals in 2013 and the Australian Fringe World Comedy Award in 2020. Attendance at her 2016 show counted towards continuing professional development (CPD) for a range of health professionals including GPs, midwives, nurses, urologists, gynaecologists, health visitors and fitness professionals, accredited by Scottish Care. Her public engagement activities aim to use laughter as an essential health promotion tool, and are in the tradition of 'clown care'. Her comedy highlights the fact that laughing is one of the things which causes many women bladder leakage.

She works to highlight a gap in women's health support and get government funding for the provision of physiotherapy to improve women’s health. Her acts have included costumes such as dressing up as a vulva and songs such as "does your cervix hang low?".

Activism Miller works to highlight issues in women's health. Miller believes the barriers which deter women from seeking help dealing with stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse need to be explored can have a significant effect on the day to day lives of many.

Politics In 2023 she became an independent candidate for election in Edinburgh Corstorphine and Murrayfield and used her campaign in part to highlight issues of women's health provision in Edinburgh.

Performances Gusset Grippers