Why should I take these courses? 

    • Get the skills required to be an entry-level pelvic floor therapist. 

    • Learn about the evidence-informed treatments for pelvic floor muscle strength and endurance impairments. 

    • Learn how to recognize when estrogen therapies or analgesics may or may not be helpful and how to have this sensitive discussion with patients and physicians.

    • Get practical experience using EMG biofeedback in small groups.

  • To explore and develop evidence-informed active treatment skills for pelvic pain conditions.

    • Learn to use and weave mindfulness and CBT into your physiotherapy sessions and treatment plan.

    • Explore concepts of hypertonicity and increased tone in voluntary muscles with no neurological damage.

    • Learn new treatment skills that are not only myofascial or trigger point related.

    • Emphasis is placed on building patient self-efficacy and empowering patients to take control of their health through communication, education and active treatment strategies.

    • Explore current concepts and theories on female and male sexual responses to pain. Also, learn how to incorporate these concepts into clinical practice to develop specific educational and other treatment strategies.

    • Understand the role physiotherapists play in the maintenance and treatment of prostate cancer. 

    • Understand the implications of prostate cancer and its treatments on sexual health.

    • Explore concepts of hypertonicity and increased tone in voluntary muscles with no neurological damage associated with prostate cancer medical treatments. 

Assessment and treatment skills are supported by peer reviewed literature on topics such as incontinence, prolapse and pain science. 

  1. Emphasis is placed on building patient self-efficacy and empowering patients to take control of their health through communication, education and active treatment strategies.

  2. Focus is on active treatments, but also discusses a role for passive therapies. 

  3. Participants learn new techniques that are not only myofascial or trigger point related.

  4. Participants assess for and differentiate between a motor control issue and a strength issue.

  5. Evidence and value of skilled EMG biofeedback use is explored. 

  6. Time given to develop the clinical skills needed to use EMG biofeedback in clinical practice is generous. 

  7. Instructors goals are to provide course participants with the critical thinking skills necessary to interpret subjective reports and objective tests, and to develop patient-centred treatment plans.

  8. Concepts of hypertonicity and increased tone in voluntary muscles without neurological damage or deficit are discussed. 

  9. Instructors offer a half day clinical shadow OR a 1-hour scheduled virtual consultation within 3 months of course completion.