Pelvic Floor Disorders Course 2026

Covering pelvic floor ultrasound techniques, interpretation, and multidisciplinary management of bowel, bladder, and vaginal dysfunction, with expert teaching and hands-on work stations

Programme overview

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

The course will cover multicompartmental pelvic floor anatomy, pathologies and their assessment on integrated total pelvic floor ultrasound (transperineal and transvaginal ultrasound).

The course will cover topics on how to perform and interpret transperineal and transvaginal scans. Specific pathologies which will be reviewed rectocoele, enterocoele, intussusception and cystocoele.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from experts at Guy’s and St Thomas’ on anatomy and take part in Workshops to practice how to assess and interpreting scans.

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

09:15

Registration and coffee

09:45

Intro and aims

  • Alison Hainsworth and Linda Ferrari

10:00

Pelvic Floor Anatomy

  • Speaker TBC

10:30

Posterior pelvic floor compartment pathophysiology, dysfunction

  • Speaker TBC

10:50

Anterior compartment pathophysiology, dysfunction

  • Sachin Malde

11:10

Comfort break

11:30

Middle pelvic floor compartment pathophysiology, dysfunction

  • Con Kelleher

11:50

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

  • Alison Hainsworth

12:10

Lunch

13:00

Defaecation proctogram (set up and videos)

  • Carlene Igbedioh

13:20

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

  • Tina Mistry and Ana Nicolescu

13:40

Workshop for integrated total pelvic floor ultrasound in break-out sessions

  • All speakers

15:40

Comfort break

16:00

MDT

  • All speakers

16:45

Close

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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