Join Mandy Roscher in Hong Kong on 5-6 October 2024

Build you knowledge and learn advanced assessment and management skills

This course will cover in-depth pelvic Physiotherapy assessment skills and treatment techniques centred around Anorectal, Postpartum and Superficial Genital and Sexual Pain

Online Component

You will get access to 3 Full Length Online Self-paced Courses

  • Anorectal Evaluation and Management for Physiotherapists (10 hours)

  • Physiotherapy Management of Female Genital and Sexual Pain (8 hours)

  • The Postpartum Physiotherapy Check (7 hours)

Practical Component

The 2-day practical course will provide in person training of internal vaginal and rectal examination and manual therapy. It will have a clinical focus with a lot of integration of learning into implementable clinical practice.

  • Condition specific assessment

  • The Anorectal Orientated Assessment (including digital rectal examinations)

  • The Postpartum Orientated Assessment

  • The Superficial Genital or Sexual Pain Orientated Assessment

  • Treatment Techniques

  • Perineal and External Pelvic Floor Release Techniques

  • Vaginal Wands, Dilators and Surface EMG

  • Internal Manual Therapy to the Pelvic Floor- Vaginally and Rectally

  • Case Studies and Clinicial Integration

  • Throughout the course we will include clinical case studies and workshops that will help you to be able to apply the practical skills in a clinical context

Download Full Course Outline

Hong Kong - Advanced Female Pelvic Physio.pdf

Anorectal Physiotherapy

We will cover the essential practical components in the assessment and management of anorectal dysfunction

  • Digital Rectal Examination

    Learn how to perform a safe, trauma-informed digital rectal physiotherapy evaluation

  • External and Internal Manual Therapy

    Learn how to treat the posterior aspect of the pelvic floor specifically for SIJ, coccyx and Pelvic Pain

  • Clinical Reasoning and Case Studies

    Integrate your theoretical and practical knowledge

  • Pelvic Floor Biofeedback and Surface EMG

    Learn this essential skill crucial for retraining training defecation dynamics.

  • Online Content

    This course includes access to the 10 hour online course Anorectal Evaluation and Management for Physiotherapists.

Female Genital and Sexual Pain

  • Specific Pain Conditions

    Learn how to differentiate between Vulvodynia, Vestibulodynia and Pudendal Neuralgia

  • Assessment Techniques

    Specific assessment techniques to determine the root cause for precision medicine.

  • Treatment techniques

    Learn how to use vaginal wands, dilators and internal manual therapy to calm the nervous system, and facilitate pelvic floor muscle downtraining.

  • Online Content

    This course includes access the 8 hour online course Physiotherapy Management of Female Genital and Superficial Sexual Pain.

Postpartum Physiotherapy

  • How to perform a Postpartum Physiotherapy Check

    Screen for DRA, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic floor muscle function.

  • Consolidate your prior knowledge

    Integrate the urinary tract, prolapse, anorectal and genital pain into a comprehensive postpartum management plan

  • Online Content

    This course includes access to the 7 hour online course The Postpartum Check.

FAQ

  • Who is this course for?

    This course is aimed at Physiotherapists already working in pelvic health who are looking for advanced clinical practice assessment and handling techniques.

  • Can I attend this course online?

    No, the practical component of this course is only for live, in-person participants

  • Do I have to be a model for the manual therapy techniques

    This course is 2 full days and as such we will be practicing techniques on each other within the course. Whilst we try to be accommodating to everyone, participants who are not volunteering themselves cannot be guaranteed that they will be able to perform the manual therapy techniques on another participant and may end up attending the practical in an observational capacity only.

Early bird pricing- 9500 HKD

Sign up and pay before 1 August 2024 to qualify for early bird pricing.

The price will increase to 11500 HKD.
Sign up now to secure your place

Course Presenter

Mandy Roscher

Mandy Röscher is a Physiotherapist living in Brisbane, Australia Mandy qualified as a Physiotherapist from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2008. She has worked in Private Practice since she qualified. She has a keen special interest in Female and Children's Pelvic Health. Mandy has a passion for teaching and mentoring and has presented a variety of lectures to qualified physiotherapists. Topics have included a variety of Physiotherapy based subjects particularly around Women’s Pelvic Health, Sexual and Genital Pain, Musculoskeletal Assessment, Pain Neurophysiology, Pain Neuroscience Education and Communication. Her courses are centred around the most current evidence available but are extremely clinically orientated. She focuses on the clinical application and integration of current research and practice with the goal being that course participants leave feeling their circle of competence has increased.