The Rost Therapy Approach to Understanding & Treating Pelvic Girdle Pain – North Vancouver June 7-8 2025
The Rost Therapy Approach to Understanding & Treating Pelvic Girdle Pain
A 32 week pregnant patient is coming to your clinic tomorrow with excruciating pubic and sacro-iliac (SI) pain. Would you know what to do? This course will teach you what you need to know to help this person, and others with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPGP), how to improve their pain and function in pregnancy and beyond.
Learning objectives
- • To effectively treat pregnant and postpartum clients with PPGP, using the RTh™ approach.
- • To understand the complex central and local inputs into PPGP
- • To learn about the changes in the pelvis during and after pregnancy
- • To be current regarding the latest PPGP guidelines, publications, assessment and treatments
- • To recognize fear of movement, protective responses and abnormal motor patterns and to effectively treat these with education, postural modifications, manual and therapeutic exercises
- • To assess when a multidisciplinary approach is required and which disciplines to involve
- Date:
June 7-8, 2025
- Location:
North Vancouver, BC at Cypress Physio + Health Clinic
- Hours:
8:30am – 4:30pm Daily
- Pre-Study:
5 Hours
- On Site: 2 days x 8hrs/day
16 Hours
Cost: CAD $697 + applicable taxes
In person course target audience
- Physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths who treat SI and pubic pain and dysfunction during pregnancy and beyond. This is also a course for all physiotherapists working with orthopaedic and persistent pain caseloads as these techniques are also successful when treating any person with SI and groin/pubic pain.
- Other health care professionals are also invited to join the course to learn the fundamentals of PPGP management.
Why learn about pelvic girdle pain?
Pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy and beyond can significantly impact function and quality of life, sometimes for years after postpartum. It’s a burden that affects an average of 45% of those who are pregnant and many are often told by their health professionals, including physiotherapists, that back pain is a normal part of pregnancy or that there is nothing much that can be done until after pregnancy. Others are offered only manual treatment but no self care strategies which can allow them to independently improve their pain and function.
Not only that, but they are often told that their pelvis is “unstable”, that they should “be careful”, and that they should “limit their activity and avoid painful movements”, all of which perpetuate fear and pain.
We need professionals with a different approach to pelvic girdle pain (PGP), one that actually helps patients
Why Rost Therapy™ for pelvic girdle pain in pregnancy and postpartum?
- This RTh course will give therapists techniques that are easy to integrate into clinical practice. Participants will be able to start practicing this approach immediately using the RTh toolbox, a mix of manual techniques, exercise, ADL recommendations and patient education that we have been teaching and refining for over 30 years.
- The Rost Therapy™ (RTh) method developed by Dutch Physiotherapist, Cecile Rost, in the 90s, and further adapted together with Canadian PT, Susannah Britnell, is a biopsychosocial treatment approach for PGP. Its main goal is improving pain and function, decreasing anxiety and fostering self efficacy and independent self management. The course material covers theoretical knowledge of PGP, but more importantly, it also addresses its management from a broad perspective, beyond the pelvis.
- With the experience that treating thousands of patients has given us, we have modified and improved RTh over the years to keep it contemporary, effective and easy to implement.
Lead Instructor:
Susannah Britnell
Contact Email:
susannahbritnellpt@gmail.com