Weekly Video | Pelvic Health Education

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease & Sexually Transmitted Infections: What PTs and NPs need to know

Today we will be talking PID. PID is an infection of either the cervix, the endometrium, the fallopian tubes, or the ovaries.

Symptoms include:

✅ lower abdomen or back pain

✅ pain during sex or urination

✅ abnormal periods or increased pain during periods

✅ abnormal vaginal discharge, including...

Treating Endometriosis: How Pelvic Floor Therapy Can Help

Diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis requires an interdisciplinary approach and NPs are a critical part of that care team.

HPI questions for considering further workup for endo:

✅ Menstrual questions: dysmenorrhea, menorraghia, can your patient insert a tampon?

✅ Sexual questions: Are you abl...

Performing a bimanual exam for Pelvic Pain: Top Tips for Practitioners

In this week's video, we will be talking about the bimanual exam and how to start thinking about the pelvic floor. Here's what we cover:

✅ Overview of bulbospongiosus anatomy

✅ How to do a bulbospongiosus release

✅ Best practices for the internal exam

The bimanual exam should be about...

The Pelvic Floor Exam: What Your Female Patients Can Expect

Today we will be talking about what your patients can expect during a pelvic floor evaluation. We know NPs are pressed for time. Here's our tried and true methodology for quickly and accurately assessing for dysfunction in clinic.

✅ Sitting on your stool with both feet on the floor, take three diap...

Dyspareunia- practical tools to help your patient

Another patient on your schedule with dyspareunia!

They’ve had 3 pelvic ultrasounds that have all been unremarkable.

You know that you don’t want to prescribe lidocaine, because numbing isn’t the answer. You don’t want to tell your patient to just relax and have a glass of wine.

You’re out of id...

Pelvic floor and constipation: what nurse practitioners need to know

In this week's video you’ll learn about the puborectalis and pubococcygeus muscle and how it relates to constipation.

If you're treating a patient presenting symptoms of constipation, here are some questions you need to ask at intake.

✅ Show patients the Bristol stool char...

What is Pelvic Floor Therapy?

In this week's video, you’ll gain insights into the benefits of pelvic floor therapy for women and why you should consider it for patients experiencing pelvic pain, urinary or fecal incontinence, or other pelvic floor disorders.

What goes into a pelvic assessment?

✅ An overview of pelvic muscle h...

Causes of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction is caused by altered motor control, or dysnergy, of the pelvic floor muscles ability to perform their functions of relaxing or contracting.

In this video, we talk through the most common causes of pelvic floor dysfunction and how you can help your patients.

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