This course offering will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to access the course recording for a 2-week period following each session. Please mark on your registration form if you will not be attending live (and watching the recording instead) for attendance-taking purposes.
To Kegel or Not: That is the Question!!
Pelvic floor problems are prevalent in more than 2/3 of women with LBP/PGP, and 1/3 of men with LBP
Is this an important fact affecting your outcomes for chronic LBP?
Course Description
Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) can include hypertonic and hypotonic muscle problems. It is not all about Kegels! How can you tell if your patient is over-recruiting their pelvic floor if you cannot do an internal exam? Not all clinicians want to perform this type of exam, or it may not be in your scope of practice. Learn what the evidence says about linking pelvic floor dysfunction to chronic low back pain, pelvic girdle pain, and hip pain, and learn what you can do about it in your practice. Help your patients to regain control of these important muscles! Sexual function and bladder/bowel function are arguably some of the most important activities of daily living that your patients need to recover. Don’t let your discomfort be the barrier to your patient’s recovery; we will make it fun and non-threatening!
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the relevance of Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) when treating orthopaedic conditions- specifically LBP, SIJ dysfunction, PGP, and hip pain
- Learn basic anatomy of the pelvic floor musculature and physiology of the lower urinary tract system (LUTS)
- Understand pelvic floor conditions as they relate to a weak pelvic floor and an overactive pelvic floor
- Learn how to ask patients important questions about sexual function
- Learn non-internal management strategies for pelvic floor retraining
- Create a prescription and progression of pelvic floor exercises for an overactive and underactive pelvic floor
- Use behavioural techniques to help retrain a variety of dysfunctions of the urinary and bowel system
- Practice externally driven techniques for assessing and treating pelvic floor dysfunction
- Understand when to refer to a specially trained physiotherapist for incontinence, prolapse, and pelvic pain
Audience: This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals.
Massage therapists – Please note that this course falls into Category A of the CEU requirements and guidelines set out by the CMTO. The CMTO does not pre-approve courses for CEU’s but you are welcome and responsible for evaluating the criteria and determining how many CEU’s can be obtained by completing this course.
Prerequisites: None
Registration Form
Schedule
Date/Time: September 10, 2022, from 10:30 am-6:30 pm ET (Toronto). Please convert to your local time zone.
Resources
The resources listed below are included in the cost of the course and will be provided to each participant in electronic, PDF format upon successful completion of the course.
Documents:
- Bladder diary
- Breathing techniques
- Chronic prostatitis syndrome
- Constipation
- Dynamic pelvic floor and core exercises for the tight weak pelvic floor
- Dynamic pelvic floor and core exercises
- Dynamic ROM program for pelvic pain and generalized tension
- Fibre diary
- Flexibility for your core
- ILU massage
- Incontinence identifiers
- Instructions for the management of urge incontinence
- Prolapse education
- Rectus diastasis correction
- Screening questionnaire
- Strengthening exercises for the pelvic floor
- Urinary incontinence assessment in older adults
- UTI prevention
Instructors
Location
Online