The Female Athlete - Level 1

Course overview

This is a 20+ hour course designed for health and tness professionals who work with females who have pelvic health concerns such as a stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse or lumbopelvic pain. It has been designed for you (health and tness professionals) to enhance your evaluative skills in screening, dierential diagnosis, assessment, and management of people who want to achieve their goals at moderate-to-high intensity with pelvic health as a consideration. Pelvic oor anatomy and intra-abdominal pressure research is reviewed, and case studies for common pelvic oor complaints are outlined for you to consider. The course content is a mix of lecture and experiential movements and assessment labs reviewing movement assessment, squats, lunges, deadlifts, skipping, jumping and external pelvic oor assessment. Course participants will learn how to empower clients to move clients beyond low-intensity exercises with muscle-specic cuing through to high intensity exercises found in most tness activities, manual occupations, and sport activities. Instructor: Antony Lo