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  Body Response
  42 Aylesbury End, Beaconsfield, HP9 1LP.   Tel 01494 880649

  The Cedar Clinic, Marlow
   28 West Street, Marlow, SL7 2NB.   Tel  01628 477707

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
BEACON SEMINARS
 

  Pelvic Floor Dysfunction - A Course for Midwives
Venue:  Complementary Health Clinic, 191 Desborough Avenue, High Wycombe, HP11 2ST

Date: Saturday, 12th May 2007

Price: £90, including lunch

As midwives, you are in an ideal position to help prevent SLH and Prolapse.

This one day course will give you tools, and you will learn how to:

  • Identify pelvic floor dysfunction
  • Identify patterns that lean to SLH
  • Identify patterns that lead to Prolapse
  • Teach correct recruitment of pelvic floor
  • Correct recruitment patterns

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 The Pelvic Floor and Pelvic Girdle Pain
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Venue: Complementary Health Clinic, 191 Desborough Avenue, High Wycombe, HP11 2ST

Date:  28 - 29 April 2007

Price:  £180, including lunch

This two day course will offer Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, Chiropractors and Personal Trainers  the recent research and the tools to identify pelvic girdle pain, pelvic floor dysfunction and pelvic girdle instability.

You will learn how to:
  • Test for pelvic girdle pain and instability
  • Identify poor recruitment patterns leading to pain and instability
  • Teach correct recruitment patterns
  • Treat PGP using trigger points, positional release and myofascial  techniques
  • Identify inappropriate muscle stabilising patterns leading to descent of the bladder and female stress, urinary incontinence and prolapse
  • Use SI belts and taping for SI dysfunction
  • Become aware of poor techniques learnt from Pilates courses which exacerbate symptoms

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Integrating Pilates with Osteopathic Treatment

Venue: Julia Murdoch's Practice, Killinchy, Northern Ireland

Date:  6 - 7 October 2007

Price: £180, including lunch

This two day course will offer Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, Chiropractors and Personal Trainers the tools and techniques to integrate Pilates into a treatment session.

You will learn:

  • About research on form and force closure
  • How to teach one to one beginner Pilates
  • Cueing techniques to facilitate breathing and recruitment
  • How to use Pilates movements to assess the patient dynamically
  • How correctly to choose the type of exercise required by your patient for their condition
  • How to incorporate these exercises within a treatment session

      And you will receive written instructions for each exercise, and its relevance to conditions and
      contra-indications.

Course Programme
Day one  
9-9.30 am Registration
9.30 Osteopathy and pilates perfect partnership
10.15 Force and form closure
10.45 Break
11a.m. Practical Palpating and Assessing the Core
12 Noon Diaphragm and Pelvic Floor
1pm - 1.45 Lunch
1.45 Cueing Techniques
2.15 Practical –cueing
3.15 Coffee break
3.30 Pilates exercises
4pm Dynamic assessment
4.30 Practical dynamic assessment
5.15 Review and discussion
5.30 close
   
Day two  
10a.m. Review of Day one and Key Issues
10.30 Practical assessing, cueing teaching
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Beginners Exercises
12.15 Practical teaching exercises
1pm - 1.45 Lunch
1.45 Facilitating Recruitment
2.15 Practical facilitating
3pm Exercise prescription
3.30 Break
3.45 Integrative treatment
4.15 Practical integrating
4.45 Overview
5pm close

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Pelvic Floor and its part in Lower Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain 

"Why do osteopaths need a course on the pelvic floor?" I hear you asking.  "Why waste my CPD on a two day course which does not apply to me?"  My own experience with my pelvic floor led me into this area.  I had three very fast births, two of which involved twins.  I experienced weak pelvic floor muscles for years, with on-going SI and gluteal pain.  I taught and still teach Pilates and thought mistakenly that I was using my pelvic floor correctly, but my abdominals were getting stronger and my pelvic floor got weaker until I needed a repair job and a hysterectomy.  Unfortunately, the repair job failed because of poor gynaecological technique, and I was suffering considerable SI and pelvic pain.  I started to research the pelvic floor and began to discover the importance of correct recruitment of the various parts of the floor, the significance of breathing and how incorrect recruitment of the internal and external oblique could lead to descent of the bladder. This led to a change in the way I teach Pilates, and now participants are always assessed for pelvic floor dysfunction and substitution, so that we ensure correct rehabilitation. I also discovered that many of the techniques osteopaths apply on a daily basis also applied to the pelvic floor, and so this led to the development of this course, which is so close to my heart. 

The pelvic floor plays a vital part in spinal stability, or core stability, to use the buzz word.  Core stability relates to the function of the multifidus, transversus abdominus, diaphragm and pelvic floor in co-ordinating to stabilise the spine.  Therefore if the pelvic floor is weak or hypertonic there will be a problem, just as there is with any other weak or tonic muscle.  Breathing is an integral part in all this, and as osteopaths we all know and hopefully, assess patients for paradoxical breathing.  Incorrect breathing has been shown, in research, to switch off the pelvic floor and inhibit the ta.  Women are particularly prone to pelvic floor problems often secondary to childbirth, especially prolonged second stage of labour.  There has been shown, in research again, to be a correlation between LBP in pregnant women, pelvic floor dysfunction and on-going back or pelvic pain.

Stress urinary incontinence is an area for physiotherapists I hear you say; well no, because if the pelvic floor is weak or functioning incorrectly with areas of hypertonicity, trigger points and tender points, this will inhibit stability and therefore could lead to LBP, pelvic girdle pain or leg pain, all symptoms we see and treat every day in clinic.  We are more than capable of teaching correct pelvic floor exercises. In fact, this has been identified as a particular  problem amongst new mothers who have only ever received a quick verbal explanation and a leaflet, if they are lucky, at a time when they are so busy the pelvic floor is the last thing on their mind. We are in the perfect position to address the usual osteopathic areas when the patient presents with pain and to emphasise the importance of the pelvic floor.  Poor pelvic floor recruitment, substitute gluteal or oblique recruitment can lead to poor load transfer through the pelvis and need assessing with techniques specific to this problem.

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