Pelvic Organ Prolapse for fitness professionals

Masterclass

Sunday, April 26, 2025

10AM Eastern, Duration: 4 hrs, Fee $90 (USD)
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About the Event

Do you work with women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse?

If you work with any woman, the answer is likely YES. Statistics suggest that around 50% of all women will experience pelvic organ prolapse, with most getting their diagnosis during pregnancy, post partum or menopause years.

These women are often extremely concerned about their condition and are told to stop exercising to keep symptoms from getting worse. This advice is not only impractical ( how can a Mom live without lifting anything more than 10lbs when her baby weighs 12 lbs ??) but also harmful to the long term health of the woman. Inevitably, these women end up in physical therapy because they are in pain or because they feel too weak to perform duties of childcare. 

Prolapse does not kill women. However, inactivity does. There is a desperate need for fitness professional who are confident and informed about the pelvic health and can train women with POP for building strength and resilience.

This Masterclass will dive deep into pelvic organ prolapse and prepare fitness/wellness professionals to work with these clients confidently.

If you’re a personal trainer, a yoga teacher or a birth professional works with pregnant women, this webinar is for you. 

You will learn about the risk factors for prolapse and understand which one of your clients may be more likely to develop prolapse. Looking in-depth at each risk factor helps guide us to best practices when working with women.

Prolapse diagnosis is a difficult one to cope with , especially in post partum chapter when there are many other challenges of motherhood. Fitness and wellness professionals are in perfect position to help women understand their condition and promote active lifestyle. 

It will give you tools to prepare women with mindfulness during pregnancy.
It will give you confidence to help women manage their symptoms in post partum. 

It will give you perspective to work with women who are living with POP

       Practical  and immediately applicable skills :

  • How to interview postpartum women for symptoms
  • Movement Screen
  • Postural assessment
  • How to plan a workout session
  • Common movement modifications
  • How/ when to introduce impact
  • How to make sense of reported symptoms
  • When to modify and when to push through
  • When to refer out
  • Complete movement framework
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What will you get:

  1. Anatomy of pelvis- Organs, fascia and muscles 
  2. Pelvic Organ Prolapse – types and symptoms 
  3. Risk factors that predispose to POP, how to screen women for these risk factors
  4. Core system as it relates to organ support 
  5. EVIDENCE/research review 
  6. POP and Posture , breath and alignment 
  7. Bio-psycho-social model of assessment and management 
  8. Exercise considerations – Impact, High intensity, Abdominal training
  9. Exercise considerations – modifications, progression and symptom management 
  10. Exercise considerations – heavy lifting 
  11. POP and support devices – Use during exercise 
  12. Working with a Pelvic floor physio 
  13. Q and A 

Audience:

  1. Fitness professionals/ coaches 
  2. Personal Trainers
  3. Yoga teachers 
  4. PT students and orthopedic professionals who treat pregnant/PP women
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What participants said last year …

 

  • This course was incredibly insightful and clearly delivered. I am a Pilates instructor and took this workshop to expand my knowledge within my scope of practice. Learning how pelvic organ prolapse is a full body issue, and the various approaches we can use to ease symptoms, complemented and fused the movement education I have through Pilates with the current evidence-based protocols. I feel confident that I can now deliver appropriate and effective sessions to my current and future clients. – Amelia Bonvento, Pilates Instructor

     

  • I loved this course, filled with clear easy to understand valuable information I can pass onto clients. The presentation slides were excellent. – Gaynor Morgan, FRSA

     

  • Fantastic well organized and presented content. Learned a lot! Far exceeded my very high expectations. – Margy Verba, Movement Specialist/Anatomy in Motion Instructor.

  • This course was exactly what I was looking for.  I am a pilates teacher and personal trainer (NASM) so the strength training element and how to train safely is what interested me in the course. In the past, I have had clients with prolapse and have even been in contact with their pelvic floor PT and still not completely understood the why. You really laid out a great foundation so I think I understand more and will have a better foundation to ask questions in the future.– Kristen Latteri (NASM – CPT, Pilates Teacher)

  • I would be interested in taking a level 2 of this course if you have it.I loved Nidhi’s clarity regarding tx for POP. Usage of simple analogies and examples were helpful in understanding these concepts which are not explained in the APTA pelvic coursework for POP. – Pallavi S , PT

  • Webinar was very clearly presented (great images & use of practical demos). Very helpful to learn about modifications, regressions & progressions, and great to learn about how to put together a programme – Cheryl Hart, Osteopath
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