Reframe Pelvic Girdle Pain: A 21st Century Approach (North America - October 20)

Details

When: Fridays, October 20 & November 3 @ 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST 

This class will span a 4-week period with a live, online session for 4 hours on a bi-weekly basis.

Where: From the comfort of your favorite armchair.

How: All you need to take this live, online course is a Zoom account. We encourage you to sign up for your free Zoom account before the first session. You will receive your Zoom meeting link two weeks before the course begins.

Syllabus

Upon completion of this course, participants will learn:

• Describe relevant literature on PPGP including etiology (casues), risk factors and prognostic factors
• Establish rationale for appropriate care inclusive of assessment and intervention strategies (inclusive of primary and secondary prevention)
• Demonstrate how to Integrate emerging care approaches with those of more traditional biomechanically oriented care strategies and perspectives that are outdated and disproven.
• Apply current evidence-informed care principles for PPGP from a primary health care perspective and with an emphasis on the roles of physical therapists and primary care providers
• Note that this course spans over two sessions that are intentionally spaced two weeks apart.  After Day 1, participants are expected to review several live sessions with the instructor and clients that demonstrate the application of care strategies that will be discussed in detail on Day 2.  As such, Day 1 and Day two are situated two weeks apart. 

Benefits

This course enables participants to REFRAME lumbopelvic pain during pregnancy and beyond. Lumbopelvic Pain can be a frightening and overwhelming problem in pregnancy and beyond. This course will help you to better understand this common clinical presentation, which has little to do with the hormone relaxing! 

Pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPGP) is a separate diagnostic classification which may affect over half of all pregnant women with symptoms persisting well beyond the post-partum period.  Although largely theoretical, PPGP is currently thought to be due to a diminished capacity for the pelvis to accept and transfer load.  Several risk factors have been identified including pre-existing lumbopelvic pain, multiparity, previous pelvic trauma and emotional stress.  Further, post-partum depression and identified anxiety have consistently been associated with PPGP.  Physical therapists are very well positioned to deliver effective evidence-based care for women with PPGP.

In this course, participants will apply their knowledge of PPGP including pathomechanical background, etiological factors, classification and diagnosis, examination and intervention.  A main focus of this course content relates to emerging data and associated theories related to pain science, HPA axis dysregulation and psychologically informed care in relation to PPGP. Participants will understand the drivers that are relevant and as such learn to help their clients understand how to de-threaten the systems that are relevant to this clinical presentation.  A systems biology perspective will be considered with a review of the importance of understanding over-recruiting and under-recruiting the pelvic floor musculature.

Evidence-based assessment and treatment techniques will be emphasised. Clinical vignettes will be used as a tool to apply all care concepts and inform physical therapists how evidence-informed cognitive approaches to care “fit” the established science relative to PPGP.

Instructor

Dr. Sinéad Dufour, PhD, PT

Dr. Sinéad Dufour is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Health Science at McMaster University. She teaches and conducts research in both the Schools of Medicine and Rehabilitation Science. She completed her MScPT at McMaster University (2003), her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Science at Western (2011), and returned to McMaster to complete a post-doctoral fellowship (2013). Her current research interests include: conservative approaches to manage pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy-related pelvic-girdle pain, and interprofessional collaborative practice models of service provision to enhance pelvic health.

Certificate

Earn a certificate upon completion from Reframe Rehab.

Mentorship

Get ongoing support with free office hours and monthly drop-in sessions with instructors–available indefinitely to all course graduates.

Time Zone

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Participation Policy

• Every participant will receive a certificate for course completion.
• We offer recordings of every session with limited access for one-week. Putting a time limit on the replay forces you to complete the material in a timely fashion which is advantageous over pre-recorded classes, which often get lost in the busy-ness of our lives.⁣
• Recordings will be sent within 24-48 hours of the session. If you haven't received it by the 48 hour mark, please check your junk mail and/or email brittany@reframerehab.com.
• No refunds will be given for missed classes.

Cancellation Policy

• Cancellations that are made 15 days or more in advance of the class start date, will receive a 100% refund by original payment method minus 10% administration fees.
• Cancellations made within 14 days or less of the event will receive a credit towards the same course to be taken within one calendar year. No refunds will be issued in this time period.
• Please let your instructor know if you will be missing a class so that the instructor knows.