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Bowel and Bladder Care for the Neurologically Involved Client

International presenter Carina Siracusa is excited to be coming to Australia to present her Bowel and Bladder Care for the Neurologically Involved Client course.

Did you know?

- 78-90% of patients with MS have bladder issues
- 68% of patients with MS have bowel issues
- Many people with acute CVA suffer from neurogenic bladder and incontinence
- People with ALS are 2x more likely to suffer from constipation
- People with Parkinson's are more likely to suffer from urinary urgency which leads to an increase in falls and morbidity
- All of the above can be helped by pelvic floor physiotherapy!!!!

Patients that are being treated for neurologic dysfunction have a variety of therapy services offered to them. Many physicians and therapists overlook bowel and bladder concerns for these patients as an untreatable side effect. However there are a variety of behavioral and pelvic floor interventions that can be applied to this patient population. This course will present the common bowel/bladder and sexual side effects that patients can experience with diagnoses of stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Spinal cord injury and Parkinson's Disease. Medical treatments of bowel and bladder dysfunction in the neurogenic population will be delineated. The course will then explore behavioral interventions that therapists and caregivers can apply in order to be able to alleviate some of the quality of life impact that these dysfunctions can have. Therapists will learn external pelvic floor techniques both manual and exercise based that can help to improve bowel and bladder functioning in these patients. Finally, sexual dysfunction in this patient population will also be explored. Participants will leave the course with treatment plans and therapeutic techniques to improve quality of life for these patients.

Topics to be discussed

Day 1
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Bowel and Bladder
- Neuroanatomy of the Lower Urinary Tract and Bowel
- Questions and cases
- Neurogenic bowel and bladder dysfunction
- CVA

Day 2
- Spinal cord injury
- Motor Neuron Diseases
- LAB- Breathing and Manual therapy techniques
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinson's Disease
- Tests for bowel and bladder dysfunction
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Physiotherapy case studies and considerations

Prerequisites

  • This course is only available to AHPRA-registered physiotherapists.

Presenters

Carina Siracusa


Carina Siracusa, PT, DPT, WCS, OnCS has been a physiotherapist since 2005. She graduated from Ohio University in 2005 with her doctorate of physical therapy. She started her career as a pediatric physio but soon fell in love with the specialty of pelvic floor physiotherapy. She currently works for a large hospital system in Columbus, Ohio called OhioHealth. She is the primary pelvic floor physiotherapist for the neuro program as well as the transgender health program. She has taught for the American Physical Therapy Association's Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapists since 2010 in their pelvic health curriculum. She has developed courses in both pediatric pelvic health as well as pelvic health for the neurologically involved client and has been teaching these for the last several years. She holds board certifications in both women's health physiotherapy as well as oncology physiotherapy.

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Courses and Workshops
25
Tue 25 - Wed 26
July
08:30AM - 03:30PM AEST
54 McLaren Street
North Sydney NSW 2060 View map
Price:
Non-Member: $1,312.00
APA Member: $875.00
Women's, Men's and Pelvic Health group: $820.00
Neurology group: $820.00
Distance discount: $820.00
Registration closing date:
24 Jul 2023
Event status:
Closed
CPD hours:
15.00
* Early bird prices close 8 weeks prior to the course start date
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Price:
1,312.00: $Non-Member
875.00: $APA Member
820.00: $Women's, Men's and Pelvic Health group
820.00: $Neurology group
820.00: $Distance discount
Registration closing date:
24 Jul 2023
Event status:
Closed
CPD hours:
15.00
* Early bird prices close 8 weeks prior to the course start date
Your registration status:
Presenters

Carina Siracusa


Carina Siracusa, PT, DPT, WCS, OnCS has been a physiotherapist since 2005. She graduated from Ohio University in 2005 with her doctorate of physical therapy. She started her career as a pediatric physio but soon fell in love with the specialty of pelvic floor physiotherapy. She currently works for a large hospital system in Columbus, Ohio called OhioHealth. She is the primary pelvic floor physiotherapist for the neuro program as well as the transgender health program. She has taught for the American Physical Therapy Association's Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapists since 2010 in their pelvic health curriculum. She has developed courses in both pediatric pelvic health as well as pelvic health for the neurologically involved client and has been teaching these for the last several years. She holds board certifications in both women's health physiotherapy as well as oncology physiotherapy.


Prerequisites

Prerequisites

  • This course is only available to AHPRA-registered physiotherapists.
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