Two Day Workshop of Instruction in The P.T. Protocol

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PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR MEN WITH PELVIC PAIN
An introduction to the interdisciplinary protocol described in A Headache in the Pelvis

A Two Day Workshop of Instruction in The P.T. Protocol described in "A Headache In the Pelvis"

Place: New York City
Time: Sunday and Monday November 2 & 3, 2003
Cost: $575
Presenters: Tim Sawyer, P.T., and David Wise, Ph.D.

The understanding and treatment of prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndromes for men developed at Stanford University Medical Center described in A Headache in the Pelvis: A New Understanding and Treatment for Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes represents a watershed in the treatment of pelvic pain syndromes affecting men.

• Didactic and laboratory experience in the physical therapy methodology of working with male pelvic pain
• Techniques of Myofascial/Trigger Point Release and soft tissue mobilization inside the male pelvic floor
• Managing expectations and flare-ups with patients undergoing treatment
• An overview of time frames and reasonable expectations for the process of the PT treatment of male pelvic pain
• The necessity of interdisciplinary treatment for chronic pelvic pain and interfacing in treatment with the other disciplines
• Guidelines in teaching the patient's partner to do the myofascial release and guidelines for teaching self treatment
• Dealing with the psychological states that exacerbate pelvic pain
• Laboratory experience will consist of participants working on each other in terms of learning the manual methods

Tim Sawyer, P.T. is a physical therapist in California and has been the senior consultant to the A Headache in the Pelvis protocol used at Stanford over the past 8 years. He traveled with Janet Travell, M.D. and David Simons, M.D. teaching myofascial methods both nationally and internationally. He is in private practice in northern California.

David Wise, Ph.D. is a psychologist in California and has been a consultant to the pelvic pain clinic at Stanford. He co-developed the protocol now used at Stanford in the Department of Urology for pelvic pain. He is the coauthor, along with Rodney Anderson, M.D of the book A Headache in the Pelvis: A New Understanding and Treatment of Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes.

To Register contact Dr. Wise's office at [email protected] or call (707) 874 2225.

It would be good if people with pelvic pain ask local PT's to come so they will be able to offer what we do in their local area.