Dubai: Male Pelvic Health Physiotherapy:

This exciting  Men’s Health Physiotherapy course will focus on the Assessment, treatment and management of the male pelvic health patient. It has previously been delivered in Canada, USA, Ireland and UK.

All of the course assessment, treatment and management techniques will be external and there will be no internal component on this course.

There will be then 2 days of practical hands-on teaching live with Gerard where he will focus on hands on techniques and interactive discussion.

Conditions that will be introduced and focused on will be Male Pelvic Pain, male athletic pelvic pain, hard flaccid syndrome, post prostatectomy urinary incontinence and post prostatectomy erectile dysfunction. This course will also focus on addressing the challenges of setting up or building a men's health service. 

Gerard has experience of running successful strongly evaluated hybrid pelvic health courses in both male and female pelvic health physiotherapy.

Day 1:

9-9.15: Introductions

9-15- 10.00 am History taking in the male pelvic health patient

10.00 -11.00 Key Musculoskeletal examination components of male pelvic pain

11.15- 12.30pm Male Abdominal and Pelvic Floor examination: External Assessment (Practical)

12.30-1.30pm Lunch

 1.30-3pm: Management of male pelvic pain: Musculoskeletal approaches & exercise (Practical)

3-5pm: Ultrasound imaging in the Rehab of male pelvic health patients: From pelvic pain to post prostatectomy rehab.

Day 2

9-00.11.00 am Post prostatectomy rehab: Urinary incontinence

11.15:.12.15am Post prostatectomy rehab: Erectile Dysfunction

12.15-1.15 How to develop a Men’s Health Physio service: An expanding role in Physiotherapy.

2.15-3.15am Male athletic Pelvic pain: Linking Musculoskeletal and pelvic health physiotherapy

3.30-4.30pm Pelvic health and the younger male patient

4.30-5pm Moving forwards in Male pelvic health Physiotherapy

Who should attend?

Designed for Male & Female physiotherapists and other clinicians who want to develop or update their interest in Men’s Health conditions including those with a Women’s Health, Musculoskeletal or Sports background. It will equip you to start working with male pelvic patients and to develop a new role or service. Gerard has a strong track record of teaching mixed groups of physiotherapists and those who are new to either male pelvic health or pelvic health physiotherapy.

 Tutor:

Gerard Greene is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and an experienced Men’s health physio and is based in the UK. He works clinically in male pelvic pain, pelvic floor rehab post prostate surgery, hard flaccid syndrome, younger erectile dysfunction, pelvic floor dysfunction in sport and focused shockwave in pelvic health. He has established 2 Men’s health physio clinics in the UK (London & Birmingham) and has experience in developing the role and service of Men’s health Physiotherapy.

He has produced a popular Male pelvic pain webinar for the APTA Pelvic Health Academy and delivered a pre-con course at the APTA CSM 2020 conference in Denver with his good friend and colleague Dr Jo Milios. He also presented at IFOMPT Asia in Tokyo in September 2020 and taught in Washington DC in 2019 & 2023.

He presented at WCPT 2017 in Cape Town on Men’s health and was invited to teach the 1st Men’s Health course in South Africa with Dr Jo Milios (South African Physiotherapy Society). He has delivered Male pelvic health courses/ conferences for the Japanese Physical Therapy Association and delivered one of the 1st practical Men's health physiotherapy courses in the Middle East (Dubai). He has also taught men's health courses in the UK & Ireland. He has previously delivered 2 live online courses in Canada during Covid, but this will be his 1^st teaching trip to Canada which he is very excited about.   He is a passionate advocate for more physiotherapists to get involved in Male pelvic health.

He has delivered his new Men’s Health course successfully in the UK, Ireland, Canada and USA. He is also an Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy in Coventry University, UK.

He is also proud to be a #tutorwhotreats.