Course Description:

Ultrasound imaging allows for valid, reliable, efficient, and non-invasive measurement of motor control deficits of the deep stabilizing muscles that are associated with neuromusculoskeletal disorders. The ability to qualitatively assess motor control in real-time followed by visual feedback training has been shown to improve clinical decision-making and patient performance.
This two-day course provides lecture as well as hands-on instruction for the utilization of rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (RUSI) for addressing lumbopelvic dysfunction. The material will explore the basic science, clinical evidence, relevant anatomy, image generation, and ultrasound probe techniques for evaluation of tissue morphology and motor pattern training. Clinical applications include a variety of lumbopelvic dysfunctions to include lumbosacral pain, urinary incontinence, diastasis rectus, pelvic organ prolapse, outlet dysfunction constipation and chronic pelvic pain.
A prerequisite list of terminology and two hours of recorded lectures followed by a quiz that must be completed prior to course onset. Saturday morning will begin with a review of recorded material. Each lecture will be followed by technique demonstrations and hands-on lab training sessions with ultrasound equipment and skills assessment. Faculty will be present during all lab sessions for assistance in learning. The afternoon of day two is specific to pelvic health diagnoses.
Topics to be covered
-Ultrasound 101: US physics, knobology, image generation, anatomic image interpretation
-Systematic techniques for performing an ultrasound scan on any region of the body
-Anterior abdominal wall
-Lateral abdominal wall
-Pelvic floor: Transabdominal approach
-Pelvic floor: Transperineal approach for males and females
-Lumbar multifidus
-Midline contents of the pelvis for prolapse, post void residual and megarectum
-Using RUSI to market and grow your practice