Low Pressure Fitness and Abdominal Massage for Pelvic Floor Care

Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute

Format(s):   Live Seminars
Discipline(s):   Physical Therapy / Occupational Therapy
Contact Hours:   20
Registration Fee:   $1195.00

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
1. Identify how pelvic floor anatomy, biomechanics and pathophysiology relate to practical and scientific evidence for hypopressive training through LPF.
2. Describe the hypopressive concept, its postural foundations and the goals of LPF.
3. Describe how organ position relates to posture, breathing and pelvic floor function.
4. Assess the abdomen for visceral and soft tissue tension and implement the appropriate manual therapy techniques to resolve dysfunctions.
5. List the neurophysiologic benefits of abdominal massage and how that relates to pelvic floor muscle function.
6. Teach abdominal massage for self care, and make the appropriate adaptations based on the physical presentation and symptomology of the patient.
7. Demonstrate correct procedure, professional skills and technical implementation of LPF exercises, transitions and progressions.
8. Demonstrate and teach diaphragmatic and abdominal myofascial release exercises and techniques.
9. Demonstrate competency in performance and teaching of the level 1 LPF sequence to patients in a one-on-one setting.
10. Describe LPF exercise adaptations for diastasis recti and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction.
11. Learn the abdominal vacuum, abdominal tone and hyperpresure assessment scale.

Target Audience

This continuing education seminar is targeted to physical therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapist assistants, registered nurses, nurse midwives, and other rehabilitation professionals. Content is not intended for use outside the scope of the learner's license or regulation. Physical therapy continuing education courses should not be taken by individuals who are not licensed or otherwise regulated, except, as they are involved in a specific plan of care.

Confirmation Notes

What to bring:
A Yoga mat or towel. Participants should wear loose, comfortable clothing that one would wear to a yoga or fitness class.

As this course involves practical sessions, participants who have special needs, medical conditions or are pregnant can fully participate in the course but the practical session will be adapted and modified. Therefore, they have to inform about their condition previously and a medical clearance to participate in the practical session will be required.

Agenda

Day One:
7:30 Registration 8:00 Hypopressive and Low Pressure Fitness Concept 9:00 How organ position relates to postural and pelvic floor care 10:00 Break 10:15 Practical 1: Postural and breathing technical fundamentals 11:15 Abdominal assessment and massage 12:15 Lunch 1:15 Pelvic floor biomechanics and physiopathology 2:15 Practical 2: LPF teaching methodology and cues 3:15 Break 3:30 Practical 3: First part of LPF level 1 exercise sequence 5:00Adjourn

Day Two:
8:00 Review and questions from day one 8:15 Abdominal thoracic LPF assessment 9:15 Abdominal vacuum assessment and breathing pattern dominant identification and corrections 10:00 Break 10:15 Practical 4: Second part of LPF Level 1 exercise sequence 12:15 Lunch 1:15 Procedure, precautions and professional skills 2:15 Practical 5: One by one level 1 sequence exercise 3:15 Break 3:30 Practical 6: Level 1 sequence masterclass 5:00 Adjourn

Day Three:
8:00 Review and questions from day two 8:15 Diaphgragmatic myofascial release exercises 9:15 Neurophysiology of abdominal massage 10:00 Break 10:15 Adaptations to abdominal massage based on uterine position and GI behavior 12:15 Lunch 1:15 LPF exercise adaptations for Diastasis Recti and Pelvic floor Dysfunction 2:15 Practical 7: LPF exercise adjunctive with Transverse and pelvic floor contraction 3:15 Video Record and LPF Resources 3:45 Questions and closure course 4:00 Adjourn

Description

Low Pressure Fitness and Abdominal Massage for Pelvic Floor Care is a 3 day continuing education course on learning the application of the Low Pressure Fitness (LPF) training system and abdominal massage for pelvic health. A novel exercise therapy approach based on the hypopressive technique, self- abdominal massage care and breathing re-education is presented by Dr. Tamara Rial.
The Low Pressure Fitness training system and self abdominal massage are two excellent tools which can serve as an adjunctive therapy to manage a wide variety of pelvic and core health conditions. This course is intended for women’s health practitioners and will provide all the tools for abdomino-pelvic assessment and pelvic health treatment through the lens of intra-abdominal pressure management and pelvic viscera organ positioning.
During this course, participants will learn and practice the technical principals of hypopressive exercise, learn the level one Low Pressure Fitness sequence; learn and receive abdominal, pelvic, spinal and diaphragmatic release techniques, including self-care protocols; practice and learn a variety of depressive breathing techniques; and leave with a solid understanding of specific adaptations and clinical cases to apply Abdominal Massage and Low Pressure Fitness.
Herman & Wallace presents the first US edition of Low Pressure Fitness and Abdominal Massage for Pelvic Floor Care with Low Pressure Fitness founder Dr. Tamara Rial. Throughout their expertise in the area, they will guide and provide you with the necessary keys and knowledge to implement the hypopressive and visveral positioning techniques to any patient with pelvic health or abdominal issues. The students will learn passive positioning of the pelvic diaphragm and abdomino-pelvic organs, which is most efficiently accomplished through a daily self-abdominal massage. This massage greatly improves blood flow and lymphatic circulation to the gut and pelvic organs leading to improved digestion, organ detoxification and hormonal balance. It will also help to release any myofascial and ligamentous restrictions that are leading to mal-positioning of the organs or breathing dysfunctions. The passive organ positioning is followed by the active technique that will train the deep core muscles to keep the organs in their optimal position. The students will also learn active positioning of the pelvic and abdominal organs through a core neuro-reeducation technique, known as Low Pressure Fitness. The Low Pressure Fitness methodology involves a seamless progression of postures and poses that cause a reduction in pressure in the abdomen and triggers an automatic response from the core muscles- transverse, pelvic floor, multifidus, diaphragm, and glutes. Low Pressure Fitness and trains the diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles to keep the pressure in the abdomen low, elevate the pelvic organs, decompress the spine, and reflexively strengthens the deep core muscles leading to significant improvements in pelvic organ and pelvic muscle function.