Stop guessing. Start treating.
A repeatable clinical framework for evaluating and treating pelvic health patients, built for new graduates and clinicians starting with little or no experience.
10 hours of self-paced training. Real-patient clinical videos. Continued access to every resource.
Coursework teaches concepts. It rarely teaches you what to do on Monday morning with a real patient in front of you.
You finished school. You may have taken a continuing education course or two. None of it tells you where to start with your first pelvic health patient.
Most pelvic health education stops at anatomy and diagnosis. It skips the part that matters most: a clear process for visit one, visit two, and every visit after that.
Without a framework, new clinicians default to guessing. They borrow pieces of protocols and hope the plan holds. Patients notice the uncertainty.
What this looks like in practice
- 01 No mentor available to ask questions between patients.
- 02 No repeatable process for a new pelvic health patient.
- 03 No clear plan past the first visit.
- 04 No confidence walking into the treatment room.
One framework. Any patient.
The Healing Method is a clinical reasoning process built for real practice. It works whether your patient presents with a straightforward complaint or a complex, multifactorial condition.
Subjective & screen
Interview structure and systems screen that surfaces the real contributing factors.
Examination
A clear, ordered exam sequence you can run with confidence on any patient.
Clinical reasoning
Turn findings into a diagnosis and a starting point for treatment.
Plan of care
Progress treatment with a plan built around this specific patient.
Pelvic Health 101 gives you a clear, repeatable framework for evaluating and treating pelvic health patients from the first visit forward. You will develop a practical understanding of the most common conditions seen in pelvic rehabilitation, including bladder and bowel dysfunction, sexual health concerns, pelvic pain, and male and female pelvic floor conditions.
Because an expert is a master of the basics.
Pelvic health can get complicated quickly, but strong clinical reasoning starts with a solid foundation.
Before you can confidently manage complex pelvic pain, advanced sexual dysfunction, neurologic presentations, or specialty populations, you need to be able to consistently assess pelvic floor tone, take a meaningful subjective history, perform a thorough objective examination, identify the most likely contributors, and choose an appropriate starting point for treatment.
Pelvic Health 101 is designed to give you that foundation.
The goal is not to teach you every possible condition in pelvic rehabilitation. It is to make sure you understand the core concepts well enough that you can continue building on them throughout your pelvic health career.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to connect your subjective exam, objective findings, pelvic floor muscle tone, and patient symptoms into a treatment plan that actually makes sense.
Topics Covered Include:
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Pelvic Floor Anatomy & Muscle Tone
Review pelvic floor anatomy and learn how to identify where a patient falls on the tone spectrum so you can better determine whether they need strengthening, down-training, manual treatment, or another approach.
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Subjective Pelvic Health Examination
Learn how to guide a patient from the initial greeting through a complete medical and pelvic health history, including bowel, bladder, sexual function, pain, pregnancy/postpartum history, and other relevant systems.
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Objective Pelvic Floor Examination
See how to set up and perform a complete pelvic health examination, including external examination, intravaginal and intrarectal examination, Q-tip testing, PERF testing and scoring, pelvic organ prolapse assessment, and real-life patient examination examples.
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Bladder Dysfunction & Bladder Retraining
Learn foundational strategies for common bladder complaints, including urgency, frequency, leakage, behavioral retraining, and patient education.
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Bowel Dysfunction & Bowel Retraining
Build a practical approach to constipation, bowel habits, toileting mechanics, retraining, and patient education.
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Pelvic Health Soft Skills & Patient Education
Watch real examples of how to discuss bladder diaries, bowel and bladder retraining, and sensitive pelvic health topics with patients in a way that is clear, comfortable, and clinically useful.
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Hormones, Local Hormone Use & Birth Control
Understand how hormonal changes, hormone replacement therapy, local hormone use, and birth control can influence pelvic tissues, symptoms, pain, and sexual health.
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Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction
Learn how pelvic floor weakness, overactivity, coordination deficits, and altered muscle tone can contribute to common pelvic health symptoms.
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The Healing Method Framework
Use a repeatable clinical reasoning framework to organize your findings, determine contributing factors, and guide treatment progression.
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Exercise & Pelvic Floor Tone
Learn how exercise selection should change based on pelvic floor muscle tone and patient presentation.
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Kegels: When to Use Them — and When Not To
Understand indications, contraindications, dosage, and progression of pelvic floor strengthening rather than automatically prescribing kegels to every pelvic health patient.
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Pregnancy & Postpartum Exercise Considerations
Learn foundational considerations for safely progressing exercise during pregnancy and postpartum rehabilitation.
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Abdominal Wall & Pressure Management
Understand the relationship between the abdominal wall, intra-abdominal pressure, breathing, movement strategies, and pelvic floor function.
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Pain Science in Chronic Pelvic Pain
Develop a foundational understanding of pain science and how sensitization and the nervous system can influence persistent pelvic pain.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain Conditions
Review common conditions encountered in pelvic rehabilitation, including interstitial cystitis / painful bladder syndrome, endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and prostatitis.
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Sexual Pain & Penetration Disorders
Build your understanding of common sexual pain presentations and contributing factors, including dyspareunia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, genitourinary syndrome of menopause, vulvar skin conditions, postpartum sexual pain, and pelvic organ prolapse considerations.
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Post-Prostatectomy Rehabilitation
Learn foundational rehabilitation considerations for patients following prostatectomy, including pelvic floor function and common postoperative concerns.
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Pudendal Neuralgia & Nerve-Related Pelvic Pain
Understand common presentations and clinical considerations related to pudendal neuralgia and neurologic contributors to pelvic pain.
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Coccydynia
Learn how to evaluate tailbone pain and consider pelvic floor, musculoskeletal, and movement-related contributors.
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Rectal & Male Pelvic Health Considerations
Develop foundational knowledge for evaluating and treating rectal complaints and male pelvic floor conditions using the same bowel, bladder, sexual function, and pain framework used throughout pelvic rehabilitation.
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NMES & Biofeedback
See demonstrations of commonly used pelvic rehabilitation technologies and learn how they may fit into treatment planning.
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Pelvic Floor Down-Training
Learn practical strategies for helping patients with overactive or non-relaxing pelvic floor muscles improve relaxation, coordination, and range of motion.
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Dry Needling of the Pelvic Floor
See a demonstration of pelvic floor dry needling and how this intervention may be incorporated by appropriately trained clinicians.
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Male Draping & Treatment Techniques
Watch real-person demonstrations of positioning, draping, and treatment considerations for male pelvic health patients.
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Myofascial & Visceral Treatment Techniques
See hands-on demonstrations of myofascial and visceral techniques commonly incorporated into pelvic rehabilitation.
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External Sitting Coccydynia Assessment
Learn an external approach to assessing tailbone pain and how sitting mechanics and symptom behavior can guide your clinical reasoning.
Designed to Accompany the Newbie to Knowledgeable Manual
Pelvic Health 101 is designed to work alongside the PelviEd Newbie to Knowledgeable Manual, giving you both the visual instruction of the course and a comprehensive written reference you can continue using in practice.
The course helps you see the concepts, clinical reasoning, patient interactions, examinations, and treatment techniques in action, while the manual gives you a resource to return to when you need to review a condition, refresh your memory, or think through a patient presentation.
Together, they are designed to create a stronger foundation than either learning format alone.
Watch it. Learn it. Reference it. Apply it.
More Than Just Diagnoses
Pelvic Health 101 is designed to help you understand how to think through a pelvic health patient, not simply memorize a list of diagnoses and treatments.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a stronger framework for answering questions like:
- Where is this patient on the pelvic floor tone spectrum?
- What is contributing to their symptoms?
- What should I assess next?
- Should I strengthen, down-train, retrain, educate, or refer?
- How do I explain this to the patient?
- And how do I progress treatment from visit to visit?
With 12 self-paced modules, real-patient examples, real-person treatment demonstrations, and approximately 8.5 hours of instruction, Pelvic Health 101 is designed to give you the practical foundation you need to begin treating pelvic health patients with greater confidence and a repeatable clinical framework.
This is the foundation you build on — because the more advanced your pelvic health practice becomes, the more important it is to have the basics mastered.
Everything you need to treat your first patient with confidence.
~10 hours of self-paced education
Work through the full course on your schedule, at your pace.
Real-patient clinical videos
Watch the subjective interview, examination, clinical reasoning, and treatment planning with an actual patient.
Newbie to Knowledgeable textbook
The Pelvic Health Therapy Manual expands on the course and serves as an ongoing clinical reference.
Downloadable resources
Evaluation and treatment-planning tools you can print and use in the clinic.
A practical first-visit framework
A specific plan for the first four to six patient visits.
Optional lab instruction
Schedule additional hands-on lab time once you complete the online modules.
Add hands-on instruction when you're ready.
The online course gives you the framework. Labs give you personalized, hands-on practice after you finish the modules. Labs are purchased separately and scheduled at any time once the online modules are complete.
Four-Hour Group Lab
Per participant. Minimum of two participants.
Two-Hour One-on-One Telehealth Lab
Participant provides an appropriate live model and camera operator.
Three-Hour One-on-One In-Person Phoenix Lab
Personalized, hands-on instruction at the Phoenix clinic.
Labs are optional but recommended for clinicians who want higher-level, personalized instruction. Payment is due at the time of scheduling to reserve your spot. Group labs hosted outside the Phoenix clinics may require additional travel expenses.
Pelvic Health 101 Online Course
- ~10 hours of self-paced education
- Real-patient clinical videos
- Downloadable clinical resources
- The Newbie to Knowledgeable textbook
- Continued access to all course materials
Support built for the first patient, and every one after.
You get continued access to the course and its resources, so you can return to the material as you begin working with patients.
Because you receive immediate access to proprietary digital course content, purchases are nonrefundable once the course has been accessed. If you have not accessed the course, you may request a refund within seven days of purchase.
Do I need a mentor or a pelvic health rotation first?
No. The course is built for clinicians with no rotation, no mentor, and limited hands-on experience.
Is the course self-paced?
Yes. Work through all 10 hours on your own schedule, with continued access to revisit the material.
What if I want hands-on practice?
Add an optional lab after finishing the online modules. Group, telehealth, and in-person Phoenix options are available.
Is pricing subject to change?
Special launch pricing or limited-time bonuses may be offered during select enrollment periods.
Walk into your first patient with a plan, not a guess.
Enroll for $49710 hours of training. A repeatable framework. Continued access.
Dr. Tara Sullivan
PT, DPT, PRPC, WCS, IFDr. Tara Sullivan has spent more than a decade specializing in pelvic health physical therapy. She is the author of the Newbie to Knowledgeable manual series and is known for translating complex pelvic health concepts into practical, clinically relevant education.
She co-founded PelviEd and co-owns Mind to Body Healing, where she continues to treat patients and bring real-world clinical experience into every course, manual, and training resource she creates.