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Working with Physiatry for Pelvic Pain
| Price: $120 Experience Level: Beginner Contact Hours: 4 |
The instructor, Augusta Shrikhande, MD, is working with H&W faculty director Holly Tanner to update and expand the course to be longer and feature guest lecturers. The new course version will be rescheduled for this fall of 2022.
This course overviews the core elements, including diagnosis and non-operative treatment options, for a successful pelvic floor physical therapy and pelvic physiatry relationship for non-operative management of men and women with Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPPS). This course aims to describe the synergistic nature of pelvic physiatry with pelvic floor physical therapy, in hopes of promoting collaboration for the care of male and female chronic pelvic pain patients.
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the Pathophysiology of Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS)
- Understand the Physiatrist approach to the problem
- Identify non-operative Pelvic Physiatry Treatment options available, in addition to Pelvic Floor PT
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Pre- Recordings: Watch Before the Live Component of the Course (2 Hours)
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Day One: 0:00 Pre-recorded content review |
Notice this schedule starts each day at 0:00. The course does not start at mid-night! This schedule is meant to show the duration of each component of the course, not the actual start-time of each lecture.
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Dr. Allyson Shrikhande, a board-certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist, is the Chair of the Medical Education Committee for the International Pelvic Pain Society. She is working with other experts in the field of chronic pelvic pain to develop training modules for residents and physicians interested in learning about the diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic pelvic pain. A leading expert on pelvic health and a respected researcher, author and lecturer, Dr. Shrikhande is a recognized authority on male and female pelvic pain diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Shrikhande is passionate about this cause and dedicated to helping men and women with pelvic pain who often suffer without anyone willing to listen, understand or find the cause of their pain. That’s why she has traveled the world to work with expert gynecologists, urologists, physiatrists, and interventional pain physicians.
Dr. Shrikhande has distilled this global expertise into a minimally invasive, cutting-edge approach to the treatment of pelvic pain and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. With an extensive background in mainstream clinical medicine, she also makes use of many alternative and holistic approaches.
She has published peer-reviewed articles on the treatment of muscle pain in academic journals and works closely with renowned pelvic pain gynecologists and urologists. Taking a team approach, she works with specialists in pelvic floor physical therapy, kinetics and movement, as well as acupuncturists, nutritionists, cognitive-behavioral therapists, and functional medicine physicians.