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Real pelvic health education for your real clinical situations. 

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Melissa's journey to become a pelvic floor therapist

Melissa's journey to become a pelvic floor therapist

 

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In today's episode, Melissa will tell us everything about her beautiful journey to become a pelvic floor therapist. Melissa had Lyme disease when she was a little girl. She was seen by many traditional doctors-and also integrative, ...

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Cisgender Males have pelvic floor too!

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In today’s episode, Melissa and Kathy will chat about the cisgender male pelvic floor; muscles, dysfunctions, and an alternative to those long-lasting antibiotics therapies that don't seem to work.

Watch our video for all the details! 

 

 

Check it out below👇

 

Enroll in Beyond t...

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Ectropion cyst - an interdisciplinary approach!

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In today's episode, Melissa and Kathy will walk us through a REAL CLINICAL situation - Ectropion cyst. Melissa's patient, a young woman with a long history of treated pudendal neuralgia, presents to her office with unexplained bleeding.

Watch how our interdisciplinary team at Wellest Int...

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Nerve distribution of the pelvic floor

Nerve distribution of the pelvic floor

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In today’s episode, Melissa and Kathy chat about the nerve distribution within the pelvic floor.

Not all urinary/bowel/sexual reproductive symptoms come from the viscera alone.

Redness, itchiness, and discharge (with negative cultures) are often v...

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Kathy's 15 minute office visit with pelvic floor lens

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In today’s episode, Kathy walks us through a REAL CLINICAL situation- chronic constipation, and how she incorporates some of the pelvic assessment tools into her 15-20 min office visit.

Don’t miss this video - it’s packed with clinical pearls that you’ll want to start using tomorrow- to ...

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Everything you need to know for billing and coding!

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Are you wondering how to bill when you incorporate the pelvic floor evaluation into your practice? In today's episode, Melissa and Kathy will share all the tips and tricks they use for coding and billing in their practice.

You won’t want to miss any second of this video... We've got y...

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The WHY behind IPH

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In this week’s video, we will talk about the Why behind IPH

 

✅  How a PT and an NP joined forces to create an institute to empower and educate NPs and CNM's on how to access the pelvic floor and not see patients with 5+ years of pain.

âś… Do you know that there are almost no NPs or C...

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Your extension table, are you using it?

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Do you know that the extension table that you’ve seen every day can actually…...

 

✅  Help you with positioning your patients for their pelvic exam

✅  Allow you to use different size speculums with ease

✅  Allow you to confidently NOT use the footrests

✅  Help you to make your pat...

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Clinical Pearl: Q Tip Test

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In this week’s video, we share some clinical pearls with your Q tip test

 

👉🏾 Use a cotton swab or your index finger 

👉🏾 Palpate vulva and vestibule in randomized fashion

👉🏾 Perform at least 2-3 times

👉🏾 Use your pelvic clock to note areas of tenderness and/or sensitivity

👉🏾 Do y...

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Dyspareunia Case Study Part 2: Assessment and Plan

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This week we’ll go through part 2 of our case study: Assessment and plan

 

👉🏾 ICD-10 code to make sure you get reimbursed 

👉🏾 A patient education plan that works 

👉🏾 vulvovaginal moisturizing

👉🏾 Appropriate use of lubricant

👉🏾 Diaphragmatic breathing to promote pelvic floor muscl...

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Dyspareunia Case Study Part 1: Subjective and Objective Findings (A Sneak Peek from our Course)

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This video was packed with so much information that we split it into 2 parts.

This week we’ll go through:

 

👉🏾 Subjective taking with a pelvic floor lens

👉🏾 Subjective documentation 

👉🏾 Standardizing your objective exam….we only assess what we’ve been taught so it’s time to upleve...

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Beyond the Kegel™ the Webinar Sneak Peek at our AANP Accredited Course!

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In this week’s video, we talk through:  

A sneak peek at our AANP accredited course!

In  Beyond the Kegel™ you’ll learn what you didn’t learn in school about assessing and treating pelvic floor dysfunction. We’ve organized it just like a SOAP note to make it super easy to follow. Start ...

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