Advanced Transperineal Ultrasound Skills For Pelvic Health Physiotherapists

• Transperineal ultrasound set up for perineal assessment

• Supine assessments for pelvic floor muscles

• Detailed learning about the possibilities of pelvic floor ultrasound to assess anatomy and function of the anterior compartment (urethra and bladder), the central compartment (the vagina, vault and uterus) and the posterior compartment (rectal ampulla, anal canal, anal sphincter).

• How to teach pelvic floor muscle contractions/release to your patients?

• Bladder/urethral assessments:

• Bladder neck descent

• Retrovesical angle

• Residual volume and measurements

• Pelvic floor measurements:

• Anorectal angle

• Levator plate angle

• Levator ani AP diameter

• Contraction, relaxation, bear down maneuver and pelvic floor movements

• Case studies/ideas of how we are implementing TPUS into our daily caseload for example:

o Pessary placement assessment/picking the right pessary

o Biofeedback -constipation,pelvic pain patients- how to relax the pelvic floor muscles

o Urinary Incontınence patients.

Male Transperineal Ultrasound Imaging

This course will also introduce you to male transperineal ultrasound scanning as related to the post prostatectomy rehab patient and the male pelvic pain patient.

Clinical Applications of Transperineal Ultrasound Scanning:

Alime will also discuss pelvic floor dysfunction related to common conditions such as endometriosis, dyspaureunia and painful bladder syndrome, the definition and effects of hyperactive pelvic floor muscles, essentilal pelvic floor rehabilitation concepts, and how to assess and manage pelvic floor dysfunction using transperineal ultrasound.

In addition, she will present novel ultrasound research (on chronic myofascial pelvic pain and pelvic floor dysfunction) in which she and her co-investigators are utilizing transperineal ultrasound to measure changes in pelvic floor muscle parameters for the purpose of comparing the the pre- and post-treatment effects of external and internal pelvic myofascial release techniques.

Who should attend:

This course is designed for those pelvic health physiotherapists who have prior experience of ultrasound imaging but want to develop thier transperineal skills.

Tutor:

Alime is a highly acclaimed educator and has given many invited lectures and taught hands-on workshops for physiotherapists and other clinicians in several countries including the UK, Germany, USA, Jordan, Turkey and Canada.

Since 2016, Alime has been conducting her doctoral research and has conducted part of her research at Sherbrooke University, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, Labo-Morin Urogynecology Laboratory in Quebec, Canada. She is a member of the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) and is very active in organizing international meetings of the IPPS. She is also co-founder of the International Pelvic Health Institute and has been organizing and teaching local pelvic health educational scientific courses and workshops for physiotherapists in her native Turkey for the past 7 years.

In 2021, Alime was selected by the IPPS to be an advisory board member, and she also became, notably, the first physiotherapist and international physio (non-American) to ever receive the prestigious Dr. Fred Howard Early Investigator Award for her novel and clinically impactful studies on chronic pelvic pain.

Gerard and Alime first met at The Turkish Physiotherapy Conference in 2011 and have worked together since. Alime has also organised pelvic health training events with colleagues such as Dr Ruth Jones, Lisa Hastie, Sarah Marsh , Dee Hartman, Heba Shaheed and many more internationally reknowned educators.

Publications

Turhan, S., Buyuk, A. (2022). Evaluation of sexual quality of life after bilateral total hip arthroplasty surgery. Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research, 108(1), 103125.

Buyuk, A., Cetin, S. Y., & Sakinci, M. (2021). The Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training and Behavioral Training on Sexual Dysfunction, Incontinence, Physical Activity Level and Quality of Life in the Elderly. Sexuality and Disability, 39(3), 555-568.

Buyuk, A et al., (2021). Investigation of thoracolumbar mobility in musicians with and without pelvic pain. Abstracts from the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) Annual Scientific Meeting on Pelvic Pain 2020. Pain Reports, 6(3).

Buyuk, A., Greene G., Jeffcoat H., Marsh S., Shaheed H. . (2021). Telehealth physical therapy in chronic pelvic pain. Abstracts from the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) Annual Scientific Meeting on Pelvic Pain 2020. Pain Reports, 6(3).

Buyuk, A et al., (2020). Development of pelvic floor dysfunction awareness scale. Abstracts from the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) Annual Scientific Meeting on Pelvic Pain 2019. Pain Reports, 5(2).

Cetin, S. Y., Buyuk, A., & Ayan, A. (2020). Investigation of the relationship between the pelvic floor and sexual dysfunction in women with Sjögren’s syndrome. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 23(12), 1728-1733.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Barefoot Birmingham, 7 High Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom