Evidence for increased tone/overactivity of pelvic floor muscles in pelvic health conditions

This lecture will cover highlights and practical applications from a recent systematic review we conducted that studied increased tone/overactivity of pelvic floor muscles in pelvic health conditions across four main categories: pain, bowel, urogenital, and sexual dysfunction. This review aimed to address methods, outcomes and terminology in papers that used a tool to measure pelvic floor muscle tone in participants with a pelvic health condition.

Presenter

Dr Rachel Worman is a licensed physical therapist (PT) in the United States who has extensive dual training, clinical and teaching experience in both musculoskeletal and pelvic health physiotherapy. She has worked as a musculoskeletal and pelvic health provider in the private outpatient setting and most recently held a senior physical therapy position as a pelvic health provider in the Women’s Health and Urology clinics of a large medical foundation in Northern California.

She has held part-time and adjunct faculty positions at both the California State University (CSU) at Fresno and Sacramento, as well as a clinical lecturer position at the University of California (UC) at Davis School of Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine. She received her BS in biopsychology with an emphasis in visual neuroscience and minor in exercise and health science from UC Santa Barbara in 2002, her Master’s in Physical Therapy (MPT) from CSU Fresno in 2007, and Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) from the joint program at UC San Francisco and CSU Fresno in 2008. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland with a focus on pelvic health outcome measures and male pelvic health.

Host

Women's, Men's & Pelvic Health National Group

Date of Live Event

27/09/2022

CPD Hours

1.0 Hours

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