Pelvic Floor Disorders Course 2025

Two-day pelvic floor dysfunction course including pelvic floor scanning, endoanal ultrasound and conservative management, rectal irrigation, PTNS, and specialist physiotherapy

Programme overview

This course is designed for all healthcare professionals starting and or undertaking endoanal or total pelvic floor ultrasound (transperineal, transvaginal) scanning.

The course will cover topics on how to perform and interpret endoanal, transperineal and transvaginal scans.

The course also involves treatment of bowel dysfunction including rectal irrigation, Sacral neuromodulation and both nurse and Physiotherapy led approaches to bowel, bladder and vaginal dysfunction.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from experts at Guy’s and St Thomas’ on anatomy, obstetric injury, clinical assessments of the pelvic floor as well as take part in practical work stations each day.

This course runs over 2 days:

Who should attend

This course is offered nationwide and to all cohorts of specialties within the world of pelvic floor health. This will include consultant surgeons physicians, clinical nurse specialists, clinical scientists, GI physiologists, pelvic floor physiotherapists and registrars – all from both urology, uro-gynaecology and colorectal backgrounds.

Latest agenda

08:00 – 08:15

Registration and coffee

08:15 – 08:30

Welcome, introduction and aims

08:30 – 09:15

Pelvic and anal canal anatomy

09:15 – 09:45

Anterior pelvic floor pathology which we are looking for on imaging and the POP Q assessment

09:45 – 10:15

Posterior pelvic floor pathology which we are looking for on imaging (rectal prolapse, OASI, fistula)

10:15 – 10:30

Comfort break

10:30 – 11:15

Integrated total ultrasound an integrated approach (set up, video of pelvic floor, images of transperineal, transvaginal)

11:15 – 11:45

Imaging modalities – appearances of pathology on different techniques (integrated total pelvic floor ultrasound versus defaecation proctogram and MRI)

11:45 – 12:05

Endoanal ultrasound (set up, video of endoanal, how to approach the report for normal anatomy)

12:05 – 12:30

Endoanal ultrasound how to approach pathology (OASI, fistula)

12:30 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 14:00

Case presentation (how to look at scans)

TPFUS, Posterior, Endovaginal and anterior and transperineal

14:00 – 14:30

Case presentation (how to look at scans)

Endoanal

14:30 – 15:00

Workstations

15:00 – 15:30

Working coffee break

15:30 – 16:30

Workstations

16:30 – 17:00

MDT / Discussions

17:00

Close

08:00

Registration and coffee

08:15 – 08:30

Intro and aims

08:30 – 09:00

Posterior pelvic floor compartment pathophysiology, dysfunction and surgical options

09:00 – 09:40

Anterior and middle pelvic floor compartment pathophysiology, dysfunction and surgical options (prolapse and urinary incontinence)

09:40 – 10:30

Faecal incontinence

10:30 – 10:45

Comfort break

10:45 – 11:05

Obstructed defaecation conservative measures

11:05 – 11:35

Pharmacological advice on bowel management

11:35 – 12:50

Urinary dysfunction and vaginal dysfunction

12:50 – 13:00

Neuromodulation for bowel and bladder dysfunction

13:00 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 16:00

Conservative management

Workstations

Pelvic Floor Course attendee

Very helpful course. Broad spectrum of information delivered efficiently

Pelvic Floor Course attendee

A fantastic 3 days of learning and networking

Pelvic Floor Course attendee

The course is well organised and enhanced my confidence on daily clinical practice

Pelvic Floor Course attendee

It has been a really great experience and I have lots of tips to apply in practice

Pelvic Floor Course attendee

Excellent course and I have learnt so much

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