Our Pelvic Health Certification is a continuing education program designed to enhance skill and proficiency in pelvic health rehabilitation, with a focus on incontinence, bowel dysfunction, and internal and external pelvic pain conditions.
Objectives of the Pelvic Health Certification:
- Demonstrate a high level of skill and proficiency with rehabilitative
- techniques for patients within the Pelvic Health or Obstetric specialty.
- Instruct patients in exercises, self-treatment tools, and behavior modification
- strategies for symptom management.
- Implement best practices to support organizational objectives related to
- metrics and key process indicators.
- Promote the growth of rehabilitative care for these specialties to patients,
- clinicians, the local community, and referral sources through marketing
- initiatives.
- Advance specialty knowledge, evidence-based care, and education through the
- presentation of a case study.
Requirements to complete this Certification:
- Recommended completion within 16 months of registering for the certification. (Extended completion dates are based on approval)
- Complete all required courses + 1 pelvic health elective course.
- Participate in all labs, or work with the course instructor for reasonable
- accommodation.
- Complete the required assignments, including post-course quizzes with a
- passing score (70% or higher), participation in an online discussion board,
- and a case presentation
Pelvic Floor -1
- Fundamentals of pelvic floor anatomy and function.
- Basic assessment and treatment techniques.
Pelvic Floor -2
- Advanced pelvic floor rehabilitation methods.
- Complex case management.
Pelvic Pain
- Comprehensive approach to managing pelvic pain syndromes.
- Multidisciplinary treatment strategies.
Introduction to Bowel Dysfunction
- Evaluation and management of bowel dysfunction.
- Pelvic floor therapy for bowel disorders.