Day One:

7:30 Registration
8:00 Introduction, goals, objectives
8:15 Lecture: Menopause 101: the multiple roles of our hormones
9:30 Lecture: Bone and joint health peri and post menopausally: women and back pain
10:30 Break
10:45 Lecture: Bone and joint health peri and post menopausally : Osteoporosis and osteopenia
11:30 Lab: designing an osteoporosis and osteopenia intervention programm
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Lecture: Pelvic health for the Menopausal woman
2:45 Sexuality in menopause
3:15 Break
3:30 Lab: Pelvic assessment: internal and external. Pelvic floor awareness techniques
4:30 Discussion, Q and A
5:00 Adjourn

Day Two:

8:00 Review
8:15 Lecture: Digestive health and Weight management post menopause
9:15 Lecture: Integrative therapies for managing menopausal symptoms: using food as medicine
10:30 Lecture: Hysterectomy: implications for therapists
11:30 Lab: Manual therapy techniques & exercise prescription post- hysterectomy
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Lecture: Yoga for menopausal symptom relief
2:30 Yoga for menopause - program design: strength, flexibility, balance, relaxation
3:15 Break
3:30 Lecture: Integrative medicine: using CAM for menopausal symptom relief
4:30 Wrap up/ Q and A
5:00 Adjourn