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: 22.5 (CEUs vary by state)
Price: $695 (Early registrant price of $675 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.
Required and Suggested Pre-Readings

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This continuing education course is a three-day intermediate-level seminar designed as a next step in completing the clinicians’ ability to comprehensively evaluate the female and male pelvic floor by learning colorectal examination and treatments. Current medical evaluation, management, evidence-based references and case studies will be presented.

This continuing education seminar focuses on physical therapy evaluation and treatment protocols for anal incontinence, constipation, pudendal nerve entrapment, coccydynia, prostatodynia (prostatitis Category IIIB) and post-prostatectomy incontinence. The relationship between pelvic floor muscle impairment and the diagnoses presented for physical therapy evaluation and treatment will be instructed.

Special Considerations:

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

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

1. Describe current updates in pelvic floor terminology.
2. Explain anatomy/physiology of the gastrointestinal system and anorectal region.
3. List key medical diagnostic procedures for colorectal conditions.
4. Perform and demonstrate external and internal anorectal examination of pelvic floor muscles.
5. Identify and differentiate specific pelvic floor muscle and key bony landmarks within the rectal canal.
6. Perform external and internal rectal myofascial treatment techniques (Thiele’s massage, trigger point release, positional release).
7. Perform patient education and behavioral training for constipation, overactive bladder and pelvic pain syndromes.
8. Describe and teach three SEMG downtraining (relaxation) strategies for the pelvic floor.
9. Describe and demonstrate coccyx evaluation and treatment using internal and external coccyx mobilizations.
10. Describe male urogenital and pelvic floor anatomy.
11. Identify signs and symptoms of prostatodynia (prostatitis Category III B).

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Stacey Futterman, PT, MPT, WCS, BCB-PMD

Stacey Futterman, PT, MPT, WCS, BCB-PMD certified, received her Master’s Degree in Physical Therapy from Nova Southeastern University in South Florida in 1996. After graduation she relocated to Chicago where she began specializing in women’s health issues including the treatment of incontinence, pelvic pain and prenatal/postpartum musculoskeletal issues. She returned to the east coast in 2003 and is now the owner of 5 Point Physical Therapy, a specialty physical therapy clinic for male and female pelvic dysfunction in New York City. Stacey, along side Dr. Deborah Coady, recently presented for International Pelvic Pain Society’s annual meeting in Chicago on their research of hip pathology and its relationship to pelvic pain. She has been featured on CBS New York and has presented for the APTA National Conference 2007 for the treatment of male pelvic pain.

Holly Tanner, PT, BCB-PMD, MA, OCS, WCS, LMP, CCI

Holly Tanner, PT, BCB-PMD, MA, OCS, WCS, LMP, CCI was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, and has returned to Duluth after living in the Pacific Northwest for over a decade. Holly is owner of a private practice emphasizing care for patients who have pelvic dysfunction. She graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in 1995 with a Masters of Arts degree in Physical Therapy. In Washington state she worked for Apple Physical Therapy where she developed and directed the Women's and Men's Health programs for the company’s many clinics. She has been an Orthopedic Certified Specialist and an APTA Certified Clinical Instructor since 2005. Holly served as adjunct faculty at the University of Puget Sound where she has taught anatomy in the Physical Therapy program as well as a women’s health elective course. Along with H&W faculty Stacey Futterman she presented “Male Pelvic Pain” at the 2007 APTA National Convention in Denver. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the APTA Women’s Health and Orthopedic Sections, the International Urogynecological Society, the International Pelvic Pain Society, and the American Massage Therapy Association.

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