Confidently care for your patients with pelvic floor dysfunction
Learn more about the course
Learn from the only interdisciplinary pelvic health provider team in the country. We practice what we teach in the course every single day by helping patients with pelvic pain, vulvodynia, vestibuloydnia, and interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and you can too!
We’re so excited to share our knowledge with you! This course is open to healthcare providers who do pelvic exams, including NPs, PAs, MDs, DO’s, CNMs & NDs.
NP & CNM: approved for 14.15 AANP contact hours
MD, PA, DO: approved for 14.15 Category 2 Credits
Course Objectives
Gain knowledge: Learn about the pelvic floor muscles and the role that high-tone or hypertonic pelvic floor muscles play in pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vulvodynia, vaginitis and urinary dysfunction (IC/BPS, dysuria, urgency, frequency). Learn how certain prescription medications, vulvovaginal moisture, and the osmolality of your lubricant impact the pelvic floor.
Gain clinical skills: Learn assessment of pelvic floor muscles and pelvic floor motor control. Identify myofascial trigger points and high-tone pelvic floor. Distinguish between what’s normal and what's dysfunctional. Plus clinical pearls for positioning on the exam table, creative use of the speculum, how your lubricant may be obscuring your specimen, and clear and concise documentation tips and templates.
Empower your clinical practice: Boost your resume with our Pelvic Health Certified Clinician Certification™.
Empower your patients: with clinically proven and practical patient education plans
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The course at a glance:
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Module 1: Pelvic floor anatomy simplified
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Module 2: Getting a patient health history using a pelvic health lens
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Module 3: Do kick ass external GU & bimanual exams, learn how to assess pelvic floor motor control, learn simple pelvic alignment assessment
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Module 4: Formulate differential diagnoses for the main pelvic pain diagnoses including Chronic Pelvic Pain, Dyspareunia, Vaginismus, Vestibulodynia & IC/BPS
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Module 5: Patient education plans that work
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Module 6: Bonus case studies
What You Get
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"Thank you so much for all of the knowledge and clinical guidance from the Institute for Pelvic Health in their amazing program. "Learning this has 100% impacted my clinical practice - such a sigh of relief for a patient to finally have an alternative solution than another negative culture and being sent home". These assessment and patient counseling tools will without a doubt have a lasting impression on myself and my patients for years to come. I just took a new job working with patients with recurrent vaginal infections and pelvic floor dysfunction. I honestly would not have ever considered this if it weren’t for all the great information I learned in Beyond the Kegel."
Cassie Romano, WHNP
"I’m an FNP in Alabama working in an OBGYN office. My nursing career has been mainly postpartum and NB nursery. I have always had a passion for helping patients with pelvic floor dysfunctions from professional and personal experiences. I have even reached out to many programs but there have been no perfect solutions for FNPs because they are geared towards PTs. But YOU are my solution. I am the only NP in my practice and we only have one pelvic floor PT in our county and they do not do internal exams.. I am helping my rural and underserved community!"
Rebekah T, NP in Alabama
Beyond The Kegel™ Course Overview
COURSE INTRODUCTION
Module 1: Anatomy of the pelvic floor
Module 2: Asking the right questions through a pelvic floor lens
Module 3A: Uplevel your pelvic exam
Module 3B: Diaphragmatic breathing and the PFM
Module 3C: Pelvic alignment assessment
Module 4: Introduction to pelvic pain
Module 5: Patient care plan: at home strategies and education for your patient
Module 6: Bonus case studies
Meet your instructors who are changing the paradigm of the pelvic exam every single day
Melissa Hines, DPT, is a pelvic floor physical therapist and founder of the leading interdisciplinary pelvic health clinic in Boston. Melissa loves teaching clinicians who do pelvic exams how to assess pelvic floor muscle tone and motor control.
Kathy Kates, FNP, ran a women’s health program for a decade and didn't think about the pelvic floor until she had dyspareunia while going through breast cancer treatment.
We created the only interdisciplinary pelvic health continuing education course for healthcare providers because they want to share their combined 20+ years of clinical experience with you so that you can confidently care for your patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.
We are published authors- check out their peer-reviewed article about the pelvic floor.
We are moms.
We are dear friends.
We know it's time to do pelvic health differently.
Won't you join us?
As Kathy's OBGYN who delivered her daughter said after taking Beyond the Kegel™- "I didn't realize there was so much I could do in an office visit that will help my patients"
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