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What About My Swollen Leg? Practical Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Lymphedema

What About My Swollen Leg? Practical Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Lymphedema

What About My Swollen Leg? Practical Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Lymphedema

CA$29.99
This course includes
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Lifetime access after purchase
The instructors
Pelvic Health Solutions (View bio)
Tania Obljubek (View bio)

This course imparted by Pelvic Health Solutions (PHS) contains the recorded lectures from the 4th Pelvic Health Symposium. This course will challenge your theoretical and practical knowledge of pelvic health. Listen to their knowledge, and deepen your understanding of pelvic health and all of the factors that will make you a top-notch, excellent practitioner.

About The Course:

The presentation will be an overview of the assessment and treatment of secondary lower leg lymphedema.  Lymphedema is swelling caused by the abnormal accumulation of lymphatic fluid in tissue spaces due to damage to the lymphatic system after gynecological surgery and radiation treatments.  After cancer treatments, lymphedema is the most common complication affecting up to 49% of people. 

The anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic system, clinical presentation of lymphedema and differential diagnosis will be discussed in this presentation.  Also, practical tools will be taught for the pelvic health therapist to identify, assess and provide treatment for the swelling.  Evidence will be presented to support interventions where applicable, and a discussion on resources available for clinicians will be shared.

What do you get in this course?

  • Slides to each lecture
  • Lifetime Access: You can come back to this course at any time. If any material is updated or material is added to the course, you will have access to the new content.
  • Certification of Completion: once you've created the course you will get a certificate for your professional portfolio.
  • Access to this course is through Embodia and while some of the content, such as the workbook can be downloaded, the majority cannot. This is to protect the instructor’s material and to prevent the content from being shared freely on the internet.
  • Embodia is mobile-friendly and can be accessed on phone, tablet and computer.
  • There is no start date or completion date. You can complete the course at your own pace.
  • You will be sent a receipt as soon as you purchase this course. This receipt can be used for education grants (such as The Allied Health Professional Development Fund) and for tax purposes.
  • Bite sized information: all of the content is broken down into bite sized chunks so that you can easily watch a video on your break, over lunch or for a few minutes at night.
  • You will receive a Special Coupon for 15% off any other online course on Embodia Academy when you’ve completed this course!

Audience: Rehab Professionals (PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT, ET, Kin, etc), movement specialists, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and those interested in learning more about pelvic floor health and wellness.

This course was recorded at the 4th Pelvic Health Solutions Symposium in 2017.

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The instructors
Pelvic Health Solutions

Pelvic Health Solutions is an evidence-based teaching company that was founded in 2010 by Nelly Faghani and Carolyn Vandyken, out of the need to develop pelvic health resources in Ontario, an under serviced health concern in this province. Since the inception of our teaching company, pelvic health physiotherapy has blossomed from a handful of physiotherapists to well over 300 therapists now rostered with the Ontario College of Physiotherapists. Pelvic Health Solutions provides continuing education courses for a variety of practitioners, including mentoring and clinical resources for therapists to utilize with their patients. Our mission is to provide evidence-based, biopsychosocial resources to patients and health care practitioners for the assessment and treatment of pelvic health problems in our province and abroad.
Tania Obljubek
BScPT , MLD
Tania is extremely deserving of our PHS Spotlight. She is by far one of the most modest people I have ever met. She is a brilliant individual with a wealth of knowledge in many areas. She graduated with a BSc from Lakehead University and a physical therapist degree (BScPT) from the University of Western Ontario. She also holds a clinical lecturer position at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. Tania has worked at Women’s College Hospital for 19 years. She started the pelvic health physiotherapy program at the hospital. When the program closed after returning from maternity leave, Tania moved o to Women’s cancers, specifically breast cancer, breast reconstruction, and lymphedema and seniors health. She has worked in many areas of the hospital including pre and post natal, osteoporosis, PCOS, chronic disease management and wound care. Tania also has a faculty position at the University of Toronto and lecturer both at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. She has been working in the area of geriatrics for 10 years.
Course Material included in this course
  • What About My Swollen Leg? Practical Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Lymphedema
  • Introduction
  • What is the Lymphatic System
  • What is Lymphedema
  • Managing Patients who are at Risk
  • Resources
  • Feedback
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