Courses for Health Professionals
With Alyssa’s clinical background in private practice and years of research and training in functional nutrition, she’s here to help! More and more manual therapists are hungry for evidence based information about nutrients, the gut microbiome, environmental chemicals and health. They want to incorporate functional medicine or “root cause” principles into their practice for improved client outcome.
Bite Size Courses (no prerequisite)
The impact of SPECIFIC lubricants and moisturisers your patients use on vaginal health, sperm motility and anorectal tissue.
Included in the Lubricants Low-Down lesson is the “Features of Personal Lubricants and Intimate Moisturisers” clinical resource handout. This is an invaluable and informative reference tool that highlights key features of lubricants. Plus, the HANDY Osmolality/PH Wheel
Ever feel the need for a PURGE in clinic?
No, not a bowel purge. More like a PURGE of your problems – a PURGE of that feeling of overwhelm and indecision from a caseload of difficult patients with ever-trickier problems.
Welcome to PURGE Mentoring. That is mentoring for: Pelvic pain, Urogenital, Reproductive, Gut, Everything. Does this sound like your caseload?
Just book your time, check in, and start firing questions and deepening your understanding until the time’s up. This is mentoring designed to make your clinic day easier and to increase your job satisfaction!
Level 1 Courses (no prerequisite)
This self-paced eCourse (designed to take approx. 4 weeks) enables pelvic physiotherapists to manipulate the vaginal ecosystem to achieve enhanced clinical outcomes for their patients with complex, chronic vulvovaginal symptoms.
No need to book accommodation or manage the family – you can learn what you need to make an immediate difference to your patients’ clinical outcome from the comfort of your couch (or hanging out the washing or ferrying family members around!)
If you are treating pelvic pain or using pessaries, this course is highly relevant and you’ll never regret it!
It clarified the importance and relevance of the vaginal microbiome to many of the conditions I treat. It gave me some confidence to start integrating my new knowledge of the vaginal microbiome into my clinical practice. Should be compulsory learning for all pelvic health physios!
I had many ‘a-ha’ moments!
This is a fantastic course if you have little or no knowledge of the vagina microbiome. It is straightforward, evidence based and Alyssa is approachable and knowledgeable beyond belief!!
I’ve just had an 87 yr old have pH from 6.5 to 5 in 10 days with [the treatment taught in the course]! Has made a huge difference to her OAB symptoms so thanks a million!
This course is chock-full of information to make you do what you do with bowels a whole lot more effectively. This course is a prerequisite for advanced courses that go into detail on topics like the gut microbiome, irritable bowel syndrome, visceral hypersensitivity, the gut-brain axis and intestinal permeability. The bottom line is, you’ve got to get fabulous at fundamentals first. Irrespective of any bloating, you really need to get this course under your belt!
I am finding it just fantastic, what a lot of study and research you do, you are very impressive!
The best thing about the course is having the knowledge to be able to ask more specific questions to my patients to gain more relevant information about their bowel/gut habits. Having a clear framework to follow has taken the guess work out of it. I would recommend other manual therapists to take the course, it’s really important information to know! I think whether or not you are treating bowel conditions we need to know the things that contribute and the avenues of referral to help facilitate the treatment.
The course was particularly good in regards to screening, and clarifying causes of bowel dysfunction. I liked the practical information given – the bowel diary spreadsheet however I still have to implement it!
This self-paced eCourse (designed to take approx. 4 weeks) will help you sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to nutrition for inflammation, nutrition to rebuild soft tissue, and the critical difference in treatment approach for acute and chronic inflammation…You’ll discover, based on research, just what on earth to say to your patients about the supplements they are using for their musculoskeletal health, including fish oils, glucosamine, magnesium, and curcumin. You’ll get research-based foundations on the role of nutrition in pain. You’ll find out what advice to give on food and nutrients for them to rebuild their bodies, whether post-injury, post-partum, or post-surgery!
Alyssa has gone and done all the research for us and is now summarising it – you actually cannot get better than that! Understanding the in depth details of the processes of the body and why nutrition is important to our clients will completely change your clinical outlook.
I would highly recommend it if you are not confident in prescribing supplements for musculoskeletal conditions to optimise your patient’s outcomes.
The course has enhanced my understanding and improved my ability to recognise when nutrition needs to be addressed in order for someone to fully recover from their muskuloskeletal complaints.
Level 2 Courses (all Level 2 courses have a prerequisite in Level 1)
Gut Critters, a follow-on from its prerequisite Insight Into Insides
It’s time to GET THE GUT BUGS – that is, really “get” them! Demystifying the microbiome is the key to solving your patients’ health problems – bowels being just a start. Gut Critters will move you forward in truly grasping the gut!
Resolving Recurrent UTI, a follow-on from its prerequisite pHantastic pHlora
You’re seeing recurrent UTI all the time in your patients: prolapse patients, painful sex patients, pelvic pain patients, urgency/OAB patients…and patients seeing you because they’re plain old plagued with UTIs! You’ve told them all the basics. They already wipe front to back, drink plenty of water and void after sex (double-void in fact!). The question you find yourself asking is “What more can I do for my poor patients plagued with UTIs?” The answer is: tons!
MEET ALYSSA
With Alyssa’s clinical background in private practice and years of research and training in functional nutrition, she’s here to help! More and more manual therapists are hungry for evidence based information about nutrients, microbiomes, environmental chemicals and health. They want to incorporate functional medicine or “root cause” principles into their practice for improved client outcome.
Alyssa’s qualifications include:
Bachelor of Physiotherapy, Postgraduate Certificate in Physiotherapy (Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation), Graduate Diploma in Health Science (Nutrition Medicine), Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy, Advanced Diploma in Western Herbal Medicine, Advanced Diploma in Nutritional Medicine, Master of Science (Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine).
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