An Interdisciplinary Approach to High Tone Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
CE Information
1.0 CE creditCompletion Time
50 minutesAvailable Until
December 31, 2025
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Overview
Specialties
Adult, Family, Gerontological, and Women's HealthSubspecialties
Primary CareClinical Topics
Treatment and Women's HealthKathy Kates reviews the importance of pelvic health and demonstrates in easy-to-understand ways how every provider can help patients in every day practice.
Learning Objectives
1. Why pelvic health
2. Describe general functions of the pelvic
floor muscles (PFM) and define high tone
pelvic floor
3. Gather useful information to help you
properly assess your patient’s pelvic pain
during your bimanual exam
4. Describe at home strategies for your
patient to help with pelvic pain caused by
PFM hypertonicity
Speakers
Kathy Kates, FNP, is a champion of women's health and ran a women's health program for a large medical institution for over a decade. For the first four years, Kathy never thought much about the pelvic floor and its impact on women's health overall. After undergoing breast cancer treatment, that changed when she had significant dyspareunia and learned — as a pelvic floor therapy patient — how important pelvic health is and how little she learned about it in her NP training.
CE Information
This activity offers 1.0 CE credit to attendees.
Accredited by AANP.
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None
Activity Content
Registration to this activity includes access to the following supporting materials.
- Pelvic Floor Cut Out - use to follow along in the talk (Size: 78.9 KB)
- PowerPoint Presentation (Size: 18.1 MB)
Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Help Patients with High Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
The opening talk for our UAPRN 2023 Annual Education conference started with a bang! Kathy Kates reviews the importance of pelvic health and demonstrates in easy-to-understand ways how every provider can help patients in every day practice.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Help Patients with High Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
The opening talk for our UAPRN 2023 Annual Education conference started with a bang! Kathy Kates reviews the importance of pelvic health and demonstrates in easy-to-understand ways how every provider can help patients in every day practice.