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Continuing Education Courses Nutrition Perspectives - Remote Course

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Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist - Remote Course - June 7 - 8 2025

Jun 7 2025 - Jun 8 2025

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Dec 6 2025 - Dec 7 2025

Nutrition Perspectives - Remote Course

Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist

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Price: $550
Format:
Online Meeting
Experience Level: Beginner
Contact Hours: 18.75

The food we eat impacts every system of the body and nourishment status directly relates to our overall health picture affecting a multitude of conditions treated in pelvic rehabilitation. Nutrition Perspectives in Pelvic Rehab (NPPR) provides the health care professional with a unique and timely opportunity to explore multi-dimensional connections between physical therapy, pelvic rehabilitation, and nutritional sciences. This course is a two day content-laden and cutting-edge experience designed for clinicians ready to access organized and clinically relevant nutrition information accessible to all experience levels and practice settings.

Participants will be introduced to the latest research in nutrition through immersive lectures and hands-on labs. The course will cover essential digestion concepts, nourishment strategies and the interconnected nature of physical and emotional health across the lifespan. Further, clinicians will delve into nutritional relevancies in bowel and bladder dysfunction, pelvic health, pain, and healing. Labs throughout include insightful demonstrations and breakout sessions. The course participant will acquire new, readily applicable tools for patient empowerment, engagement, and self-management utilizing presented principles.

Whether at the beginning of your journey or well on your way down the path of integrative care, this continually updated and relevant course is a unique, not-to-be-missed opportunity. NPPR is developed and instructed by Megan Pribyl, PT, CMPT, a physical therapist / pelvic rehab specialist with both a degree in nutrition and an intense passion for sharing the convergence of these worlds for the benefit of clients and health care providers.

Prerequisites
None. This is a beginner-level course.

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 (all video lectures must be completed before attending the first day of class), 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 course is appropriate for physical therapists, occupational therapists, pediatric nurse practitioners and medical doctors and other health care professionals interested in expanding their practice in pediatric bowel and bladder disorders. 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 seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe digestive tract anatomy, physiology, and neurology. Define the basics of general nutrition and its effects on musculoskeletal health..
2. Discuss the processes of systemic inflammation, adrenal fatigue, gluten sensitivity, central sensitization and gut dysbiosis and their role in physical and physiological health.
3. Describe nutritional concerns for specific conditions including depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and chronic pain syndrome
4. List specific evidenced-based nutritional recommendations for patients with pelvic pain; constipation, dyspareunia, IBS, incontinence, interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia
5. Describe the nutritional demands during pregnancy and lactation. List nutritional links to infertility, pre-term birth and postpartum depression.
6. List specific nutrients required for hormonal homeostasis through the male and female lifespan.
7. Identify key metabolic processes affected by the continuum of obesity to the athlete triads and explain the underpinnings to the broader epidemic of nutritional dysfunction.
8. Explain the energy balance / work capacity ratio and discuss the impact on clinical decision-making and prediction of therapeutic outcomes.
9. Discuss collagen synthesis and implications for bone, muscle and tendon healing. Hypothesize on future rehabilitation and nutritional strategies based on emerging information.
10. Compare and contrast foods that hinder versus those that support healing.
11. Define the role of the rehabilitation clinician in the field of wellness and nutrition and identify strategies for safe and effective instruction about nutrition and supplements.
12. Explain in detail the interrelationship between orthopedic manual therapy, pelvic rehabilitation, and nutrition.

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: 4.25 hours

1) Overview Nutrition Perspectives (56 mins)
2) Digestion Essentials - Part 1 (50 mins)
3) Digestion Essentials - Part 2 (23 mins)
4) Interconnected Systems - Part 1 (41 mins)
5) Interconnected Systems - Part 2 (37 mins)
6) Interconnected Systems - Part 3 (47 mins)

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Day One
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7:30 am PT - Zoom opens 30 mins before course for registration and setup
8:00 am PT - Course begins / Welcome & Introductions; Review pre-course videos
8:30 - Lab 1 Digestive Care and Intro to Food Prep Concepts
9:15 - Beyond Nutrition Basics - Part 1
10:15 - Break
10:30 - Beyond Nutrition Basics - Part 2
11:30 - Lab 2 Concepts in Food Science
12:15 - Lunch Break
1:00 - Energy Balance and Nutritional Homeostasis
2:30 - Break
2:45 - Nutrition, Healing, and Pain
4:15 - Discussion / Q & A
4:30 - Adjourn

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Day Two
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7:30 am PT - Zoom opens 30 mins before course for registration and setup
7:45 am PT - Review Day 1 / Q & A
8:00 am PT - Course begins - Lifespan Nutrition
9:45 - Break
10:00 - Nutrition Correlates in Pelvic Rehab - Overview and Bowel Health
11:15 - Nutrition Correlates in Pelvic Rehab - Bladder, Genitourinary Health and Beyond
12:15 - Lunch Break
1:00 - Lab 3 - Cultured Foods and Traditional Food Preparation Techniques
2:00 - Clinical Applications: Foods that Hinder, Foods that Heal
2:45 - Special Topics in Integrative Care
3:30 - Case Studies
4:00 - Questions/Discussion/Wrap-up
4:15 - Adjourn

"This class was excellent. Megan is such a great instructor. She is so intelligent and knowledgeable, but she is able to break down concepts and information she provides to those of us who are being exposed to these topics for the first time. I'm fascinated by how the food we eat affects our entire system, and this class provided so much research on how true this is. She inspired me to continue to investigate these concepts further, and to make this information more accessible to everyone."
Maria Kronk, PT, MPT, CMPT, SCS | Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist - April 27-28 2024

"The course content should be part of physical therapy training at the basic level. I love the content so much that I have now taken this course twice. This information gets to the root cause of problems we see in the clinic -- for our pelvic patients as well as most others as well."
Susan Punke PT | Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist - February 24-25 2024

"I absolutely loved this course- a refreshing change of pace as compared to more physical/musculoskeletal type continuing education for pelvic floor therapists- thank you thank you!"
Madeleine Beiser, PT, DPT, WCS | Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist - February 24-25 2024

"This course was beyond amazing for clearing up all the nutrition confusion that has existed and will strongly benefit my clinical practice going forward. The amount of time to create and research that Megan has put into this course has made it a true labor of love that will continue to benefit practitioners and patients alike for decades to come."
Sarah Wankowski, DPT | Nutrition Perspectives for the Pelvic Rehab Therapist - February 24-25 2024

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