Learn more about what's inside this CE-accredited course.
Beyond The Kegel™ is the premier interdisciplinary pelvic health course for women's health providers. It's a 6-module self-paced online class incorporating pelvic health best practices into one comprehensive yet concise system.
AANP accredited, 8.15 contact hours.
Doctors and Physician Associates can claim Category 2 CME hours.
We can't wait to teach and share our knowledge with you! This course is open to healthcare providers who do pelvic exams, including NPs, PAs, MDs, DO's, and CNMs.
Course Objectives
Gain knowledge: about pelvic floor muscles and the role that high-tone or hypertonic pelvic floor muscles play in conditions like 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 your pelvic floor. Learn the right patient education & counseling to help your patients.
Gain clinical skills: Identify myofascial trigger points and high tone pelvic floor, pelvic floor motor control - 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: Add our Pelvic Health Certified Clinician Certification™ to your resume.
Empower your patients: with tried and tested practical patient education & counseling plans.
ENROLL TODAY
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
ENROLL TODAYGLOWING STUDENT TESTIMONIALS:
"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."
Casse 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
Your Instructors
Melissa Hines, DPT, is a pelvic floor physical therapist who founded the only interdisciplinary private pelvic health clinic in Boston. Melissa is passionate about women's health and teaching other providers how to bridge the disconnect between pelvic health, primary care, and OBGYN.
Kathy Kates, FNP, is also a champion of women's health and ran a women's health program for a large medical institution for over a decade. For the first four years, Kathy never thought much about the pelvic floor and its impact on women's health overall. After undergoing breast cancer treatment, that changed when she had significant dyspareunia and learned — as a pelvic floor therapy patient — how important pelvic health is and how little she learned about it in her NP training.
They created the Institute for Pelvic Health™ to fill the gap in provider education around pelvic health.
Get the practical tools you need to confidently care for your patients with pelvic floor dysfunction.
As Kathy's OBGYN said after taking Beyond the Kegel™- "I didn't realize there was so much I could do in an office visit!"
