Participants who register for this course have the option to attend the course live-online and/or watch the recording later. The recording will be available to all registrants for a 1-month period and access is provided on the next business day following the course. This allows participants who may not be able to attend live-online to still benefit from the content. To facilitate attendance tracking, please indicate on your registration form if you won't be attending live.
Description:
Stay Current. Stay Inspired. Stay Connected.
Join us each month for Hot Topic Sessions - a dynamic mentorship initiative designed to keep pelvic health professionals up to date on the latest clinical trends, evidence-based practices, and emerging research. Led by expert guest speakers in the field, these interactive webinars are crafted to enhance clinical reasoning, stimulate peer engagement, and support knowledge translation into everyday practice. Whether you're looking to refresh your knowledge, challenge your thinking, or strengthen your clinical toolbox, Hot Topic Sessions offer an engaging and convenient way to grow professionally—one month at a time.
✨ Sign up anytime! Your registration provides you with access to the next 6 consecutive months of expert-led sessions—so you can start learning right away and stay connected as new topics roll out.
📅 Sessions take place on the second Wednesday of every month.
👉 If you register after that month’s session has already taken place, your 6-month access will begin the following month. (Please note: months cannot be skipped; access runs consecutively from the time of registration.)Program format:
- Expert-Led Lecture (60 minutes):Â Insightful presentations on current and relevant topics from respected leaders and researchers in pelvic health.
- Case Study Integration & Discussion (60 minutes):Â Real-life case studies analyzed collaboratively, with opportunities for group dialogue, peer sharing, and Q&A.
- Monthly live Zoom sessions with 1-month recording access available for registrants.
- Curated topics that address clinical complexity, innovation, and best practices.
- Emphasis on practical application and decision-making.
- Supportive learning environment to build community and confidence.
- Live attendance is preferred, but registrants will receive 1- month recording access to each session.
- Flexible entry—sign up anytime and enjoy 6 consecutive months of access (no skipping months; starts from your registration date or the following month if you join after that month’s session).
Speakers/Topics:
- December 2025 - Karen San Andres - Treatment Planning
- January 2026 - Shelly Prosko - Pelvic Pain
- February 2026Â - TBD
- March 2026 - Robyn Synnott - Preventing Burnout While Maximizing Patient Experience
- April 2026Â - TBD
- May 2026 - Sarah Marshall - Beyond Cancer Survivorship - Restoring Quality of Life in Those Affected by Cancer
- June 2026 - Anita Lambert - Pregnancy and Postpartum
Please note: The speaker line-up is subject to change.
Audience:Â Open to all healthcare and wellness professionals
Date/time:Â The second Wednesday of every month from 7:00-9:00pm ET. Please convert to your local time zone.
Speaker Descriptions
Seen, Heard, and On Board: Structuring Pelvic Health Assessments to Boost Buy-In and Retention - Karen San Andres
Pelvic health clients arrive with layered histories, misunderstood symptoms, and a nervous system that craves safety before anything else. How we structure our assessments is often the deciding factor in whether a client feels seen, understood, and ready to participate in their own healing. When we create a trauma-informed, collaborative assessment experience, our clients buy in, stay engaged, and achieve better outcomes - and our caseloads become more stable and fulfilling to manage.
In this 2-hour mentoring session, Karen San Andres shares her practical, lived-experience-driven framework for structuring pelvic health assessments in a way that strengthens trust, increases client understanding, and improves retention. The first hour focuses on clinical reasoning, communication strategies, embodied consent, and assessment flow. The second hour applies these principles using case studies that reflect real-world complexity in pelvic health care.
Clinicians will leave with a stronger assessment structure, clearer communication tools, and confidence in pacing their sessions to support both client safety and clinical effectiveness - all while staying grounded, human, and sustainable in their own practice.
Objectives:
- Apply a trauma-informed, client-centred structure to pelvic health assessments that fosters safety, trust, and autonomy.
- Use communication techniques (active listening, mirroring, clarifying questions) to ensure clients feel seen and heard.
- Explain assessment steps clearly and confidently, including B.R.A.I.N strategies, embodied consent, and options for internal pelvic exams.
- Integrate assessment findings with client goals to improve understanding, buy-in, and motivation.
- Create collaborative plans of care that set expectations around timelines, visit frequency, and signs of progress.
- Use follow-up structures that reinforce progress, celebrate wins, and naturally improve retention.
- Identify and correct common new-grad assessment mistakes that reduce buy-in and overwhelm clients.
- Maintain clear boundaries while supporting clients between visits using sustainable and professional communication methods.
- Recognize when to delay or modify the physical exam, and how to co-create safety with clients through choice and pacing.
Bio:
Karen San Andres is a Sport Medicine and Pelvic Health Physiotherapist with over 21 years of clinical experience. She is also a Certified Women’s Health Coach, Birth Doula, clinic owner (ellephysio & Associates), international retreat host (Confidence From Within Retreats), and Teaching Assistant with Pelvic Health Solutions. Karen blends deep clinical expertise with a trauma-informed, human-centred approach that helps clients feel truly seen, heard, and supported. Her work focuses on creating safe, collaborative assessment experiences that empower clients, improve outcomes, and strengthen clinician confidence.
Beyond Cancer Survivorship - Restoring Quality of Life in Those Affected by Cancer - Sarah Marshall
Cancers in the pelvis account for a relatively large percentage of new diagnoses for both cis-males and females. Side effects can occur with any type of cancer treatment, whether that be surgical, radiation, or chemotherapy. The severity and type of side effects will depend on the specific area or organs effected, size of area treated, type and amount of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and overall health and co-morbidities.
With modern advances in cancer treatment, more people are surviving cancer than ever before. Patients live with the burden of having had cancer, radiation, chemotherapy and surgeries. We must now look beyond the initial good outcome of survivorship and focus on optimizing quality of life.
Pelvic health physiotherapy is uniquely positioned to address symptoms of cancer treatment including urinary, bowel, and sexual dysfunction. This evidence-based lecture discusses a whole-person approach that can help improve the quality of life in this under-serviced population.
Objectives:Â
- Discuss the prevalence of cancers affecting the pelvis and pelvic floor dysfunction following treatment
- Summarize common medical cancer treatments
- Review assessment considerations for people affected by cancer
- Review the evidence for physiotherapy treatment options
Bio:
Sarah holds a Master’s of Physiotherapy with Merit from Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Sarah became passionate about pelvic health physiotherapy after working in a health & fitness setting with people who were pregnant or post-partum. She has since dedicated her continued training and professional development to the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction, including pelvic pain, urogenital dysfunction, gastrointestinal disorders, neurogenic bowel and bladder, penile rehabilitation, and paediatric pelvic floor dysfunction.
Sarah is a Lab Assistant and Instructor with Pelvic Health Solutions, delivering a course in Oncology and the Pelvic Floor. Sarah has presented on various topics for organizations including the Obstetrical Management Seminars for the University of Calgary, Ostomy Canada Society, Pelvic Health Solutions, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.Â
Schedule
Dates/time:Â The second Wednesday of every month from 7-9pm ET.
Delivery Format
Live attendance is not mandatory for this online course. Enjoy a 1-month period to access and review the course recording, which is sent out on the next business day. We understand that life can be busy, which is why we offer you the freedom to access the course recording(s) during the time-limited viewing period.