Sibling Rivalry: Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Sibling Rivalry: Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
This course includes
The instructors
Learning Objectives
- Understand how Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction currently exist stuck in a "Sibling Rivalry"
- Determine if it is low back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, or both?
- Understand the current literature on both low back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Understand how central sensitization is associated with both of these conditions.
- Reasons why we should move away from a biomedical model for chronic low back pain.
- Commonalities in low back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction and how to treat both with a biopsychosocial model.
- Feel confident performing a physical exam for persistent pain and understand why this is still important.
- Understand the connection between mechanical low back pain and lower urinary tract symptoms.
- Understand why pelvic floor physiotherapists need to start screening the low back and why orthopedic physiotherapists need to start screening the pelvic floor.
The Online Course Series
This course series can be found on Embodia as the course track: "An Introduction to the Biopsychosocial Model in Physiotherapy Practice" and can be accessed: HERE.
The course track includes:
- Central Sensitization N=1
- Sibling Rivalry: Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Consideration of a Biopsychosocial Framework for Overactive Bladder Syndrome and Bladder Pain Syndrome
The instructors
BHSc (PT)
Carolyn is the co-owner of Reframe Rehab, a teaching company engaged in breaking down the barriers internationally between pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science. Carolyn has practiced in orthopaedics and pelvic health for the past 37 years. She is a McKenzie Credentialled physiotherapist (1999), certified in acupuncture (2002), and obtained a certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in 2017.
Carolyn received the YWCA Women of Distinction award (2004) and the distinguished Education Award from the OPA (2015). Carolyn was recently awarded the Medal of Distinction from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in 2021 for her work in pelvic health and pain science.
Carolyn has been heavily involved in post-graduate pelvic health education, research in lumbopelvic pain, speaking at numerous international conferences and writing books and chapters for the past twenty years in pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science.
Material included in this course
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Sibling Rivalry: Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
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Sibling Rivalry: Low Back Pain and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
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