High Performance Pelvic Health: From Screening to Sport (BC)

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the anatomical, and neurophysiological inter-relationships that provide interventional bridges between pelvic, musculoskeletal, and performance health.
• Gain an understanding of the etiology and symptomatology associated with a broad range of pelvic health conditions commonly experienced by female-bodied athletes beyond urinary incontinence (painful sex, pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti, gut issues).
• Develop an individualized whole-athlete pelvic health risk profile based on biopsychosocial variables – age-specific co-factors, physical and pregnancy history, genetics, fueling, sleep, stress, fitness/training history, and kinesiophobia.
• Interpret pelvic health screen findings and in-sport symptom patterns to develop a clinical hypothesis that supports exercise selection, loading strategies, and return-to-play progressions..
• Analyze movement, fitness, and sport demands to identify symptom triggers and patterns to provide clinical and conditioning opportunities to coordinate the pelvic floor into fitness and athletic movements.
• Create setting-specific interventions that integrate the pelvic floor into three different types of sport-specific movement patterns appropriate for early rehab.
• Apply concepts of graded exposure, progressive overload, impact and pressure management, and/or exercise scaling to progress pelvic floor tissue adaption, load or impact tolerance, and coordination in three different sport-specific demands.
• Build communication tools to bridge collaboration gaps and re-imagine referral patterns with pelvic health, orthopedic, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, and sports dietician disciplines to support un-siloed, athlete-centered care across the lifespan.
• Value abdomino-pelvic health as an essential component of comprehensive, whole athlete care.

Day One: Conceptual Context (with Synthesis through Labs and Case Studies)

• Pelvic Health is a Team Sport- Anatomical, Neurophysiologic Systems Thinking
• Contemporary Pelvic Health-Research and Practice Pattern Updates
• Pelvic Health as a Performance Variable: Symptoms are Signals
• Biopsychosocial Framework Across the Lifespan: Symptom Context, Physical and Pregnancy History, Fitness and Recovery Strategies, Fueling Habits, and Kinesiophobia
• From Screening to Strategy: Interpretation and Clinical Decision-Making (beyond urinary incontinence)
• Coaching Pelvic Health: Movement Analysis Through a Pelvic Health Lens
• Creating Adaption: Modification of Load, Impact, and Pressure Across Training
• Integrative Programming: Pelvic Health Within Return to Sport Plan of Care

Day Two: Practical Application

• Young Adult Athlete Pelvic Health (no pregnancy history): Clinical Reasoning and Special Considerations
• REDs, Beyond menstrual tracking, Low Energy Availability, Incontinence, and Bone Stress Injury, Hypermobility, and more
• Athleticism in Pregnancy: Clinical Reasoning and Special Considerations
• Pregnancy preparation, Monitoring and tailored modifications in various fitness/sport, Diastasis screening and more.
• Athleticism in Postpartum: Clinical Reasoning and Special Considerations
• Role of genetics, Return to activity reasoning, Kinesiophobia, Individualizing Care, Progression Strategies, and more.
• Athleticism in (Peri)Menopause: Clinical Reasoning and Special Considerations
• Hormonal transitions, Systemic changes, Muscular composition and training, Connective tissue considerations, and more
• Case Presentations:
  • Concept synthesis via individual and group processing opportunities.
  • Plan of care and program development

**You are required to complete an online module (included in the purchase and accessible through the Teachable course) prior to the weekend of the course as well as reading a few additional blogs and articles. You will gain access to the course information within the Teachable platform immediately after purchase, but the pre-course videos will not become available until 60 days prior to the course. It is highly recommended that you watch the video as soon as possible after it becomes available to be able to give yourself time to take it in and ideally begin utilizing Julie's concepts in your clinical practice. This ensures everyone is starting with at least this same base knowledge and will allow the in-person time together to be well spent on deeper concepts. We recognize real life may delay watching the online course, however, it is to your benefit to work with the concepts clinically before coming. If you do not watch the pre-requisite video by at least one week prior to the course you will not be able to attend the course weekend. This will be monitored and enforced by admin staff and there will be no refunds at that time.

This is an in-person course with required online only pre-course information. You will have access to the course portal upon purchase of your spot. You will find information about the course location, travel and lodging recommenations and FAQs. At two months prior to the course you will gain access to the pre-course reading modules. This will not open earlier. This is to allow you enough time to get through it prior to the course and utilize some of the introductory concepts with your patients and come with a base level of knowledge ahead of the course that will allow us to dive right in to the new course material, but not be so long that you forget what you learned.

Course material is intended for Physical Therapists/Physiotherapists, credentialed Athletic Trainers/Therapists, Exercise Therapists, Kinesiologists, medical providers in all areas of adult care (urology, orthopedics, sports medicine, pain, women’s health, etc.), and strength and conditioning specialists (CSCS).

Once we are within the 60 day period prior to the live course date your fee is no longer refundable.

Once you complete all course modules in order, achieve a passing mark on the post-course quiz, and complete a course evaluation you will receive a Course Completion Certificate. You will have 3 attempts to achieve a score of at least 70% to unlock the course evaluation.

This course is not eligible for any pre-approved CEUs for US-based physios.

This course is hosted on the teachable.com online streaming service designed to handle any system setup. So if you have a computer and an internet connection you should have access without issue. If you have issues with a slower bandwidth connection then you can change the video settings to a lower quality to help improve any loading issues.