Continuing Education Courses Pilates Therapeutic Exercise for Pelvic Health - Remote Course

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Pilates Therapeutic Exercise for Pelvic Health - Remote Course - May 3 - 4 2025

May 3 2025 - May 4 2025
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Pilates Therapeutic Exercise for Pelvic Health - Remote Course

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Price: $425.00
Experience Level: Intermediate
Contact Hours: 15.25

This two-day remote course is an introduction to the Pilates Method, and is intended for those rehab professionals with a secure background in therapeutic exercise prescription and experience in treating pelvic health patient dysfunctions.

This two-day, remote continuing education course was designed to introduce the Pilates Method and is intended for those rehab professionals with a secure background in therapeutic exercise prescription and experience in treating pelvic health patient dysfunctions. This course was developed by Pamela Downey, Board Certified Pelvic Health Practitioner and a Polestar-trained Pilates Educator since 2000.

Pilates is everywhere these days. More than likely, practitioners and their patients have taken a Pilates class live using equipment such as the Reformer or a mat class. Pilates reformers are more common in all types of rehab settings than they were a decade ago. Physical therapists have a strong therapeutic exercise basis to their profession. Often, however, the training needed to use Pilates properly can be intimidating. Perhaps a clinic has a reformer that is just sitting there, underutilized, and a practitioner is motivated to begin using it with their patients. This course is designed for the therapist who wants to bridge that gap and begin using Pilates-based therapeutic exercise in the clinic.

The course will focus on using Pilates to further rehabilitate the patient currently in the clinic, moving patients from a mostly passive treatment experience to actualizing their healing with active movement and neuromuscular integration.

In this course, participants will be introduced to Joseph Pilates, as well as some equipment “stars” that he designed and built to further deepen awareness of movement and make it more accessible to improved health and wellness. Hopefully, registrants will be inspired to continue their Pilates education in a formal education program; but in the meantime, this course will allow the therapist to access a portion of the repertoire to then share with all types of rehab patients while deepening understanding of the therapeutic exercise principles.


Prerequisites

Pelvic Function Level 1, through Herman & Wallace or Pelvic PT 1 through the APTA is required. Exceptions to this policy may be granted on a case-by-case basis, to inquire about such exceptions please contact us. No previous coursework in Pilates is expected


Pre-Course Learning Requirements

10-14 days before the course, participants will receive an invite to join Teachable, an online learning platform. In Teachable, registrants will find video lectures, other pre-course learning materials, course manual files, mandatory liability waiver, and URLs for any Zoom meetings. We require registrants to complete teachable components in sequential order. Videos lectures are required and must be completed in-full before proceeding to the next Teachable section. At the conclusion of the course, registrants can access their post-test and course evaluation form to provide our curriculum team feedback on their experience, as well as download their certificate of completion - all via Teachable.


Audience

This continuing education seminar is targeted to physical therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapist assistants, registered nurses, nurse midwives, and other rehabilitation professionals. Content is not intended for use outside the scope of the learner's license or regulation. Physical therapy continuing education courses should not be taken by individuals who are not licensed or otherwise regulated, except, as they are involved in a specific plan of care.

Upon completion of this continuing education course, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe overlying principles of Pilates movement and training according to the framework developed by Joseph Pilates
  2. Employ therapeutic exercise concepts used in the pelvic rehabilitation realm using the Pilates Reformer
  3. Integrate core stability theory for promoting pelvic health
  4. List the most common precautions and contraindications for Pilates equipment and mat exercise.
  5. Properly set up and safely use the Pilates Reformer equipment with patient.
  6. Safely apply Pilates Mat exercise recognizing patient muscular readiness.
  7. Demonstrate ability to correctly cue patients in the execution of Pilates exercises, each on mat and reformer
  8. Perform a selection of common Pilates Exercises to deepen self-awareness and proper execution of target therapeutic exercise intervention
  9. Integrate Pilates-based therapeutic exercise into your plan of care for those with pelvic floor and pelvic ring dysfunction including the lumbo/pelvic/hip complex

NOTE: Times below are listed in Pacific time zone
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Before Day One
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These video lectures in Teachable must be viewed in-full prior to the course

Total video lecture time: 2 hours

Introduction to Pilates and Pelvic Health

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Day One
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6:30 am PST - Zoom opens 30 mins before course for registration and setup
7:00 am PST - Course begins / Intro and Brief Review of Recorded Material: Ther Ex concepts, core stability models
7:30 - Intro to Joseph Pilates, his 34 mat exercises and the equipment, safety
8:00 - Frame work for organizing Pilates therapeutic goals
8:45 - Break
9:00 - LAB 1: Part 1: Reformer repertoire: exercise, points to consider, cueing
11:00 - Lunch
11:30 - LAB 2 Part 1: Mat repertoire: exercise, points to consider, cueing
1:30 - Break

1:45 - LAB 3: The Chair Intro: repertoire: exercise, points to consider, cueing

-- Pelvic Health Treatment Paradigms & Pilates Interventions

-- PFM & Core weakness: SUI/motor control & strength with overflow & DR: length/tension motor control & strength with conscious identification and unconscious integration

2:30 - Adjourn

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Day Two
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6:30 am PST - Zoom opens 30 mins before course for registration and setup

7:00 am PST - Course begins / Q&A from Day 1

7:30 - Lab 4 Part 2: Mat repertoire: exercise, points to consider, cueing

9:30 - Break

9:45 - Lab 5 Part 2: Reformer repertoire: exercise, points to consider, cueing

11:45 - Nourishment Break

12:15 - Lab 6: Pelvic Health Treatment Paradigms & Pilates Interventions

-- IAP Mgt: POP/Cystocele, precautions for overfacing your client

-- PFM short and spasmed: Painful Levator Ani Syndrome, & Urinary Urgency/Frequency

-- Pelvic Ring: SIJ progression & Glute medius tendonitis & lumbo/sacral/hip dissociation awareness

2:15 - Home Exercise Orientation: Build the Habit 

2:30 - Adjourn 

 
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