Audience: This continuing education seminar is targeted to physical therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapist assistants, registered nurses, nurse midwives, and other rehabilitation professionals. Content is not intended for use outside the scope of the learner's license or regulation. Physical therapy continuing education courses should not be taken by individuals who are not licensed or otherwise regulated, except, as they are involved in a specific plan of care.
Level: Intermediate
Contact Hours: 20 (CEUs vary by state)
Price: $625 (Early registrant price of $600 for registrations received one month before course start date).
Prerequisites: It is required that the participants have a working experience with evaluating and treating patients with pelvic pain inclusive of vaginal examination. Pelvic Floor 1, through Herman & Wallace or Pelvic PT 1 through the APTA is strongly recommended.

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This course instructs on the differential diagnostics concepts of non-surgical medicine as applied to the patient with pelvic pain and urogynecological and bowel dysfunction. This course has a strong emphasis on functional anatomy, embryology, neurological convergence, sensitization and referred pain patterns. The information provided is intended to meld seamlessly with the clinician’s current evaluation and treatment strategies. Through selective tissue testing and a thorough comprehension of neurological integration, the clinician will be able to deduce the origin of his/her patient’s pain and dysfunction and will be able to offer a means of accurately, tissue-specifically treating those that suffer.

This course explains central senitization, peripheral sensitization, somato-somatic, somato-visceral and viscera-visceral interactions in detail, and presents a treatment approach that has been demonstrated as an effective means of quickly addressing patient’s pain and dysfunction – including that which has been deemed “chronic”. All information is research based, and all references are provided.

Upon completion of the course, participants will have a greater understanding of the multifaceted interactions of the central and peripheral nervous systems and cognitions, and their role in the often progressive nature of pelvic pain. Participants will gain knowledge of how to directly treat and immediately eliminate internal and external “muscle spasms”, often without the direct application of pressure or contact to the muscle(s) involved. Participants will also learn “why” fascia becomes tight, and how to “release” the fascia so that the patients have permanent healing and freedom of pain and dysfunction. The course information is applicable to the patient in pain, as well as the patient suffering from both surgical and non-surgical voiding disorders.

Special Considerations:

As this continuing education course includes lab work, all course attendees should come prepared to participate as both clinician and patient.

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Upon completion of this continuing education seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the thoracic, lumbar sacral spine and their relationship to pelvic pain
2. Understand the boney pelvis and acetabular structures and their relationship to pelvic pain
3. Describe the interaction of the central and peripheral nervous systems and their relationship to pain
4. Understand the psychology of pain, and how it relates to a magnification and persistence of pelvic pain
5. Describe how fascia becomes “tight”
6. Demonstrate the role and importance of scar tissue in the treatment of pelvic pain

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As this continuing education course includes extensive lab work, all course attendees should come prepared to participate as both clinician and patient. Vaginal pelvic floor muscle examinations will be taught in labs.

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