Instructor's names: 

Ashley Burr BSc. (KIN) CAT(C) & Jenny Telfer-Crum BSc (HK) MSc (PT)

Course Description:

You’re a provider in the health and fitness industry, and have clients who are women. You’ve heard a lot of ‘buzz’ and have seen social media posts about the pelvic floor, the ‘core’, and a bunch of ‘do’s and ‘dont’s’, and you don’t really know where to start. Maybe you’re an Athletic Therapist, Physiotherapist, Chiro, Osteo, Massage Therapist, or Naturopathic Doctor, and you have clients who are curious about exercise and their pelvic health through pregnancy and menopause. Maybe you’re a Fitness Coach or Trainer and have clients asking about their ‘ab separation’ and how they heard that loaded activities like lifting heavy weights and jumping are ‘bad’ for their pelvic floor. Maybe you have bladder leaking or prolapse concerns yourself as a clinician. 

You know there are Pelvic Physios out there, but surely there is SOMETHING you can do for your clients (and yourself) without having to do an internal vaginal exam. (Spoiler – this is what this course is all about!)

Learning Objectives:

In External Approaches to Pelvic Health: Education, Exercise, and Empowerment, we cover:

• Pelvic Floor Anatomy

• Urinary Incontinence (and how to manage it through to skipping and running)

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse (what is it, management options)

• Diastasis Rectus Abdominus (myth-busting, assessment, and exercises included!)

• Supporting your clients through pregnancy and postpartum changes, including exercise recommendations

• Menopause – what it is, what it isn’t, and what you can do to THRIVE

• Biopsychosocial approach to Pelvic Pain conditions

• The importance of client-guided care approaches 

• How to collaborate and network with other healthcare providers, and when to refer to a specialist

The main goal is to introduce you to assessment and a movement-based treatment approach that can be integrated into your current approach for common pregnant, postpartum, and pelvic health concerns. The main topics will include Diastasis Rectus Abdominus, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, UrinaryIncontinence, and how to guide your client through movement & exercise while managing these conditions throughout the lifespan.

By the end of the course, you will be confident in assessing diastasis rectus abdominus, and the pelvic floor through external palpation. You will build off your existing knowledge of exercise, movement, and lifestyle approaches to health with additional knowledge about the pelvic floor, core, and their related concerns. You will be able to offer accurate, up-to-date insight, education, and safe and appropriate movement-based treatment recommendations for your female clients regarding pelvic health concerns and common transitions throughout the lifespan (pregnancy, postnatal, & menopause). 

Who is this course for:

Health and fitness students/professionals: Athletic Therapists, Massage Therapists, Personal Trainers, Coaches, Osteopath, Physiotherapists, Naturopathic Doctors & Chiropractors

Cost: 

Certified $600.00 + local GST/HST

Super Early Bird Pricing: $540 + local GST/HST (10% off!)*

Early Bird Pricing: $570 + local GST/HST (5% off!)*

Student $500.00 + local GST/HST

*See course dates/locations for deadlines

CEU’s

Certified Athletic Therapist: 3.6
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba: 12
Massage Therapists Association of Nova Scotia: 7 - Primary
OAO - Nova Scotia/Ontario Manual Practitioners: 12 (see CPD policy)
The College of Naturopaths of Ontario - 13.5 Category A

Don’t see Approved CEU’s for your association on this list? Reach out and let us know! We would be happy to look into it for you!

Clinicians, please bring (if you have):

• Yoga mat

• Skipping rope

• Running shoes

About the Instructors:

Click to learn about Jenny Telfer-Crum BSc (HK) MSc (PT)

Click to learn about Ashley Burr BSc. (KIN) CAT(C)

*no refunds within 2 weeks of the course date - any refunds will be subject to a 10% admin fee.