PELVIC BIZ IN 7 DAYS - DAY ONE

0:03 Okay, welcome welcome everyone. Welcome to pelvic ways in 7 days and it's a delight to have here. Um, okay. So, we're taking the one today and then we'll build on it on subsequent days. Okay. So, just follow along. Thank you once again for registering for this course. I'm honored you believed that pelvic bay in 7 days would help you start a pelvic health practice even without prior knowledge of pelvic floor physiootherapy.

0:50 I want you to go to a quiet room. Um, you may want to lock the door behind you so that there are no distractions. Put your phones on silent. You have chosen to invest this time to add to your knowledge bank. Let it count. Get a journal and a paper. So before we start, let us commit our minds and intellect to God, the creator of all flesh. Let us ask God to open our creative minds and understanding to receive this knowledge and run with it for multiplication because that is very very important. Um

1:36 you'll be amazed at how things will drop in your mind as you go on this course and it's important that you write those things down and it's only God that can actually drop those ideas in your mind. I want you to declare, I have what it takes to excel as a pelvic health physiootherapist. The Holy Spirit teaches me all things and I'll be fruitful with the knowledge I receive optimally. As a means of introduction, if you have never met me before, my name is Faith Duncan. I'm a pelvic health physiootherapist and educator. I help men and women overcome

2:21 pelvic floor problems and train physiootherapists who want to specialize in pelvic health. I have practiced physiootherapy for the last 16 years and specialized in pelvic health for 8 years. I've trained over a 100 physiootherapists and I've helped 50,000 plus women and men understand their bodies for an improved quality of life. Uh I obey God this year to create a simple template for physiootherapists. emphasis on simple templates because I know that um diversifying into pelvic health naturally seems like a cumbersome

3:08 journey for people and I mean the thought of oh another aspect of the woman's body can be so distressing and then people just shut out because they feel it's a whole lot in it and I thought okay there should be a simpler way to make people get interested in pelvic health and to make them actually start in the shortest time possible and run with it. So I decide decided to create a simple template for physiotherapist who want to know who want to specialize in pelvic health who don't know where or how to start without feeling lost or overwhelmed. If that's you don't worry I got your back. Through my years in the mainstream practice I realized most physiootherapists never knew how deep and vast pelvic health physiootherapy

3:55 was. they will peg it at the pregnant population or add the prolapse population. Some of these conditions were treated with a conventional knowledge of autotopedic physiootherapy and sometimes they will get stuck with progression of treatment. I'm going to show you how my journey has been so far. Um I single-handedly started advocacy for pelvic health physiootherapy while working as a neuroysiootherapy. So wherever you are right now, you can start. It is not you. You don't be scared. Just start. Whatever it is, whether you're in women's health yet or you're not in women's health, whether you started pelvic health, you can start. Here am I teaching pelvic health to

4:40 physio pelvic health physiootherapy to postpartum mothers. Sorry. All I had was my knowledge, my personal equipment, my listening ears, my seeing eyes, and an empathic heart. It's very important that you take um to to what was that now? You pay attention to this major things cuz they are the they are the parts of you that going to help you to actually distinguish yourself on this journey. Um, you know how the system can be when you want to start something, they'll probably they'll probably give you a million and one excuses, million and one excuse why

5:26 you can't um they can't invest in something they are not sure is going to bring them money or not or in a new expertise in a new field. So, you might want to you might do a lot of things from your pocket. You might do a lot of things just by your own intuition. And most importantly is when you're um when you're trying to get your clients, you must have a listening ear. You must be able to listen beyond what the person is actually saying. You're looking at their body language. You're looking at their environment. You're looking at um their answers as they're responding to you. Now, there are the categories that it's your eyes that is going to fish them out. So you are on the lookout for any pregnant woman, not even

6:12 pregnant woman, any woman, any man that might be suffering from a pelvic floor problem. And as much as the pelvis is hidden somewhere in the body, there are a lot of things that you can see from the outside that will tell you that this person is going to have a pelvic health problem. And of course it's only someone who who loves on the other person who is empathic that can um that can seek out the person that has a problem and then decide to profile a solution. So it's important that you have all these elements on your journey to pelvic health. And this is me here teaching pelvic health physotherapy at an antinatal session in a public health facility.

7:03 I also went further to teach pelvic health in religious organizations because yes, every human has a pelvis and most people are covering their pelvic floor or pelvic health problems with their garments and clothes. So, you can find them anywhere. It doesn't stop in the hospital. On this journey, I got signed as an ambassador for um a US company, Pelvic floor muscles Texas, because of the work that I do. And this is me here training health professionals on pelvic health physiootherapy. And this journey has taken me to several places. um media appearances

7:49 at different um locations, radio, TV, large organizations. And ultimately when you are doing a good work, you definitely get rewarded with time, even if the struggle is hard, even if everybody's against you. Results do not lie. So have that at the back of your mind. Results do not lie. It's important that whatever you're trying to do on this pelvic health journey, your focus is to get results. Irrespective of naysayers, irrespective of difficulties, irrespective of the struggles around you. Even if your immediate environment is telling you no, you are not you're not doing well. As you can see on this

8:35 screen, there is a local award and there is also an international award. So there are ways that your works eventually will speak for you one way or the other. It only depends on how you position the value that you're offering. And if Mr. A is not seeing what you're doing, don't worry. As long as you're sure that um you're getting results, document your results. um have a good network of a mentor, a coach that can actually hold you even when you feel like falling or when you're not sure on your journey because eventually it's going to pay off. And um here uh this 2025 yeah I got

9:22 recognized for leadership in women's health at my former place of work that's general hospital and this other picture where I'm with other senior colleagues I was representing um I was representing the president of one of the chapters in Nigeria for um Nigeria society of physiootherapy at a government at a government stakeholders meeting that is how much the value of pelvic health or your positioning can push you forward. Um I'm in no way in terms of professional cada close to any of this any of these two colleagues they are way

10:09 way my senior but here we are together having to stand on the same stage because of the work that has been done. Okay. And here's a feedback from one of my mentees. Uh two of my mentees actually after having a one-on-one session with me. The first one says, "I had an amazing session with you and I fondly regard you as a very accommodating person that is very in tune with not just the technical aspect of women's health, but also in communicating your perspective. And I'm very sure your your patients treasure that as well. As a woman's health

10:55 physiootherapy specialist, you're definitely an applaudable expert in the field in tune with self-development and growth. Thank you again. And this other feedback says, "The session was extremely enriching and put a lot of things into perspective for me as someone who is interested in women's health as well as being a female myself. It helped a lot in providing clarification in terms of the appropriate medium to seek knowledge in this field. Okay. Um so why am I telling you all of this?

11:41 Just so you know that if I can achieve all those things without being a director of physiootherapy or a professor, you also can. Whatever kid the profession you are in right now, there is a lot you can do with the knowledge that you have. I want you to declare and say to yourself without unmuting, as a licensed physiotherapist, I have what it takes to specialize in pelvic health. I will not stop in getting new knowledge on this journey, which is very very important. Um, you never know it all. I am also

12:27 learning. I learn every single day. I don't stop learning. And that's how you get better. And another thing is I am doing this for myself and for every human in my network with a pelvis. If you have all of this at the back of your mind and you believe in this, it's also going to help you on your journey to pelvic health. So what did I decide to do? My first step was to create a self-paced course for wider access affordable by even physiootherapy students that will help physiootherapists to get the knowledge they need to start a practice in pelvic health physiootherapy. My second step to create a 30-day group mastermind that will help you get group

13:13 mentorship as you progress in your practice and also a 12 month group mentorship program if you want access to me all year long. Now what next for now please pay attention to everything I'll be sharing and we all in step by step just follow me. We are going to be making public business decisions. Okay. So, um, African physiootherapists and business shame. Let's talk about it. Many African physiotherapists find it shameful to communicate their professional value because they do not know how.

13:58 Um, they have been told it's a humanitarian service. The blessings come in the fact that the patient is well. just be happy you're getting result. Yeah. They also don't know when and how to monetize their skills, processes, and experiences. I want you to write in the chat box, do African physiootherapists shy away from providing services in six figures? Yes. No. Sometimes I want to see your responses. Do African physiootherapists shy away from providing services in six figures. Okay. Yeah. Precious says I think yes.

14:46 Okay. Do they think they need more professional certification to start a public health practice? Okay. I'm saying yes. Yes. Um I've only seen one. Sorry. Who has Oh, definitely. Yes. Okay. Um do they suffer and have limitations with social life amongst other suffer with social life amongst other

15:33 professional counterparts? Yes. No. Sometimes I'm saying yes. Precious says, "Yes, I just left school." And that's and that's the ideology we left with. Needing more certifications, right? Needing more certifications. Yeah, that's what they've told us. So, okay. Okay. For the social life question, sometimes. Okay. Sometimes, right? Yeah, some people are are understanding it. So, yeah, sometimes do African physotherapist start out

16:20 passionate, knowledgeable but invisible. Question number four. Yes. Yes. They all start out passionate, knowledgeable but they are invisible. Okay. Do African physiootherapist start private practice early? Yes. No. Sometimes. Sometimes. Okay. Sometimes that's fine. All right. So, I want you to make a decision. Do you want to change from the licensed physiootherapist who is not confident

17:06 enough to start with what he or she has to the physiootherapist who knows how to deliver her expertise with confidence and targeting it with the right monetary value? Yes. No. Maybe. Are you ready to change? Are you want to be at the status quo? Yes. Yes. Yes. Great. Okay. Now the shift healthy base in 7 days. Yeah, that's why you're here, precious. Okay. Let's find your pelvic physiootherapy

17:54 gold mine. That's how we're going to do it. We're going to be finding your pelvic physiootherapy gold mine cuz we are on a mine that has a lot of gold. Okay. Why is it important that you find your gold mine? Identifying your own gold mine is very important on your journey to starting a viable business. My gold mine is different from your gold mine and you cannot run with my own gold mine because it's probably unique to me. I know why I'm doing what I'm doing. So, it's important that you find your own. is also important because finding the

18:40 conditions or knowledge that easily comes to you either by skill, by personal experience, by curiosity or just a liking is our tool to the next phase. Okay. What is pelvic health physiootherapy? >> Uh trying to minimize escape stress. >> What is pelvic health physiootherapy? They are physotherapy protocols used to

19:26 treat pelvic health related conditions in the body either directly located on the pelvis or referred to other parts of the body. So a client might show up with jaw pain but the cause of the jaw pain might be a problem in the pelvis. So beyond you saying oh uh you want to poke down in the pelvis we are looking at the whole body. Pelvic health physiootherapy also provides unparalleled health care for men and women with pelvic health dysfunctions experienced across all ages from childhood, adolescence, pregnancy,

20:11 postpartum, sexual health, menopausal, gynecology, empowering them to improve their health and wellness. Now imagine the wide population that you have to serve across all ages. I mean this the heavens are opened. Nobody can nobody can attend to all of the people in this population group at once. So you have you have the ready market is left to you. What are you going to do with this ready market? What is pelvic health physiootherapy still? It is you bringing hope, bringing healing, bringing answers

20:58 to pelvic health problems both in the man and in the woman. So both the man and the woman has a pelvic floor and they all have issues that they deal with. Can see the model of the man's pelvic floor here and you can see the picture of the woman here as well. Whatever you're doing in whatever you're doing as a public health physiootherapist, your message, your treatment, your intervention must carry hope. While it starts with hope, healing must come. As healing is taking place, there must be answers. So, um you must ensure that in everything that you do, these three

21:44 pillars are in them. This this is also a secret how you can stand out and distinguish yourself as you go on this journey. What is your goal on this journey? You want to ensure that the patient, your client feels heard. That one is very key. The client either a man, a child or a woman must feel heard. Um, if I'm going to stay a little on children, you know, for as adults, sometimes we find it easy to assume that we know what the child is trying to say or what the child means. You must take your time to ensure that the child

22:30 understands what you want to do, what you're trying to do, what the child is going to expect and listen. Get a feedback from the child before you progress. Let the child know why you're doing what you're doing and be sure that the child understands before you progress. So feeling head might even be the only uh might be the important healing pillar that your patient even wants cuz the patient might have gone to see several health practitioners and once all they are looking at is the report, the results and they're not listening to the patient. But when the patient comes to you or the client comes to you as a pelvic health physiootherapist, you give that client that autonomy of oh

23:16 she listened to me. He listened to me. He wasn't just looking at the data, the statistics. He was actually listening to what exactly I am experiencing. Your goal is also to ensure that you have a treatment plan. Never jump this step. You must have a treatment plan. It could be short, it could be long, it could be intermediate. You must have a treatment plan. And if you are not sure of what you're doing, um, cut down your cut down your plan to the point where you're sure and then seek for that help. Um, seek for that clarification, seek for that knowledge, seek for that support as to

24:02 what you need to do. But always ensure that you have a treatment plan. Um your work with the patient also must help him or her to feel confident of her ability to live the healthiest life possible with an improved quality of life. So your plan at the end of the day is to ensure that this person feels. It's not just about you saying oh um this condition that you have this what I'm going to do now be sure that you are able to relate or communicate your plans to this client in such a way that you can see that the patient is feeling

24:47 confident that oh there is hope here there is solution um with what she has said or with what he has said or the advice he or she has given me I I believe that if I follow through I am going to be able to live a better life either 100% or 90% or 60% but my state of health will be better than when I started with pelvic health physiootherapy. So let's find your practice goals. What is your practice code? Let's find your practice code. That's what we're doing on day one. and want to find a practice group. So what is your PG? Your PG is that specialty that you have knowledge about or you are willing to get

25:35 knowledge on and you can easily talk about it and teach it. So when I say talk about it and teach it, uh you might be wondering, oh are you going to be teaching teaching courses and all? No. When you're working with your patient, when you are explaining to the patient, you're also teaching the patient, it's important that you carry your patient along. So, it must be a specialty that you feel comfortable in speaking the words around them in in explaining the scenarios in relating um whatever signs and symptoms you find to their everyday life. It's important whether you have the knowledge or you are willing to get the knowledge that is

26:21 your PG. It can also be what people ask you about that you are comfortable getting knowledge on. What will happen if you don't implement finding your PG or what will happen if you implement sorry finding your PG. When you identify your PG, you can easily start your business and profit from it. What will happen if you don't implement this task? You will be moving around in circles and will start and stop. you will struggle with achieving remarkable results and you won't be able to market your business

27:06 because if you are in a space where you are not comfortable a space where you don't you don't want to talk about I mean you're not proud or you're not confident with the use of certain terms or words you're going to be stammering when you're speaking your body posture is going to show that oh she doesn't feel comfortable with this and your client will not feel confident in what you're doing. You need to be their speaker. So if their speaker is shy, then the patient is going to run away cuz the patient on his or her own is also shy of talking about this. So you are supposed to stand as their advocate. That's why it's important that whichever specialty you choose, ensure that

27:53 it is your own PG, something you are comfortable with so that you're not stuck in marketing. You're not stuck in getting results and you don't just get tired and decide to go back to your previous specialty. Okay, now let's find your practice gold. get your pen and paper. Um, we're going to be looking at the specialties in the mine and you look at which ones you feel most comfortable with. Um, I'm just going to be sharing a few with you. There is a workbook, the FYPG workbook that has a list of everything and you can actually use the workbook to

28:40 pick which one and the workbook also help you to pick which one is your your most convenient PG. So let's look at this specialies in the mind. So in pelvic health physotherapy we have pediatric pelvic health and with pediatric pelvic health um there's a whole lot you can do just like saying pediatrics pediatric physiootherapy but now it's pediatric pelvic health. So anything that can happen to the adult pelvic health um could also happen to the pediatric pel pelvic health. This would start from childhood, start from the day the child was born. So you can under pediatric

29:26 public health on his own, there are various things that you can do. Um you you can decide to advocate for sexual and repro reproductive health protection. You you may also want to advocate with the parents to prevent future pelvic floor disorders, you know, by teaching them guided um healthy lifestyle for the child. Majorly um for pediatric you're looking at education, advocacy and then if there there is already an underlying pelvic floor problems problem rather you are teaching the parent or you're treating the condition. Teaching the parent on

30:11 how to care for that child with the pelvic floor problem. teaching the parent on how to prevent future pelvic health problems and treating any existing pelvic floor problem that a child might have. For pediatric um pelvic health uh as of now in the world we know that children are now starting their menstrual cycle early. So in a way you might also want to include menstrual health education, reproductive health education to their caregivers and their parents. Okay. Um giving education on how to care for the sexual and reproductive organs of the child so that the child does not

30:57 have problems in the future. Another specialty mine is the obstetrics and maternal health. This there are various aspects of pelvic health physiootherapy that you can do in obstetrics and maternal health. Before the mature um woman gets pregnant, while she's pregnant, during child birth, while she's giving birth, after pregnancy, there's a whole lot. So there's a lot of conditions here that you can pick from. What are those challenges that this populations are facing? That this population is facing sorry before pregnancy, during pregnancy, during child birth, after pregnancy.

31:47 So it's not it's not just one condition. Another specialty is pelvic health advocacy where you can specialize in. With pelvic health advocacy, you're just educating, teaching, creating campaigns, um designing policies, can be in your community, it can be in your religious organization, it can be to the government. And you can monetize all of this. You can monetize all of this. It can be to um another health facility. In fact, public health advocacy is

32:33 limitless. Okay. Um you can create products and services to couples, adolesccents themselves. So their parents are going to buy parents, caregivers, mature women, mothers, grandmothers. Everybody needs to learn about pelvic health. So this might just be an area where you want to specialize. If you don't like to um open up, if you don't want to be having direct contact with clients like oh you need to open up, you need to touch this, you need to touch that, all you want to do is educate. Yeah, pelvic health advocacy is another specialty you can look into. Rehabilitation for pelvic surgery is another one. um individuals who have had

33:21 any form of surgery around the vulva, around the anus, um around the pro um rectum, sorry, the scrotum, the penis. We know as physiootherapists that surgery always comes with adhesions. So we want to work on healing anything that is connected to um the surgery or the impact from the surgery. Um it could also be cesarian section surgery. You might just want to specialize in taking care of women that have had cesarian section as a pelvic health physiootherapist. There are a lot

34:08 of complications that could arise from that. um so many things additions can cause for someone who has had a surgery. So you want to look at the different um problems that can arise from pelvic surgery and then you choose which one do you want to do. Okay, we will delve deeper into the sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub specialties under these major specialties on day three. Um you can also work as a birthing coach. So you might just choose that your own is any pregnant woman that wants to give birth. You want to be the

34:53 physiootherapist attending to the delivery. You're looking out for how she's breathing, how she's positioned, is this position going to be helpful for easy uh betting of the baby. Is this position going to cause more damage to the mother? Is this betting position or betting activity? Because beyond even the position, the activities that go on during delivery may also cause um injury to the mother and the child. Most times other health practitioners don't focus on what's happening to the mother. They are more of oh the safety of the child safety of the child. The impact of what happens during birthing but the woman shows up much later after she's gone

35:39 with the baby give or take one week from one week upward she starts to feel the impact of whatever happened at delivery. Either it was good or it was traumatic. So as a betting coach, one of your major goals is to reduce the experience of the pregnant mother from experiencing a traumatic birth as much as possible. Um you can also decide to be a lactation physio. For lactation, your focus is um how is the mother breastfeeding? How is the baby latching? How is the mother producing milk? You know, what physiootherapy protocols can you um embrace or implement to support this

36:27 woman on her lactation journey such that if she had previous muscularkeeletal problems before she started breastfeeding, it doesn't get aggravated or it doesn't come or stand in the way of her ability to breastfeed the child. um while she's breastfeeding, you're looking at posture that is beneficial to both her and the baby. You're looking at posture that is not going to give her muscular scolateral problems. You're looking at posture that will allow better flow of milk of breast milk. You're looking at posture of the child and latching of the child such that the mother doesn't have um breast nipple soreness or injuries

37:15 from lactate lactating. Um you also want to ensure as a physiootherapist, pelvic health physiootherapist at this point that the woman enjoys the process of lactation. She looks forward to breastfeeding. you know, we said we want to give hope um to them to the clients always in whatever we do. So, there's a lot you can do relax with lactation as a pelvic health physiootherapist. Um you may also want to specialize as a pelvic health in gynecology conditions, fibroids, ovariances endometriosis and a host of those other conditions. What you are probably doing here as a

38:00 pelvic health physotherapist is mitigating the impact of this condition on the woman's body. Um also trying to promote good health of this organs in the woman's body. Whatever it is that is predisposing the woman to have these conditions, you're looking at physiootherapy protocols that can support the body to heal these conditions or to support the whole body from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet for a better quality of life. Um, we're looking at you can also specialize in menstrual and hormone

38:45 health. I'm sure you have heard of or I mean the norm generally is that people think menration should be painful for the woman. Um the men population think that's the normal thing. Some women also think oh that's normal you know. So there are things physotherapist can do to actually alleviate painful periods. um absent periods, inconsistent periods, menopausal syndrome, permenopausal syndrome. Um for the menopausal client, you're looking at improving bone density, relieving joint pains and stiffness, um improving blood flow to reproductive and sexual organs because as they age,

39:32 you know, movement reduces, um activity reduces and where they reduce blood flow, the organs, those parts of the body, they don't function as well as as well as they should or they would before they got to that level of menopause or permenopause. Um, you're providing therapeutic support for the symptoms that they may be having. You also want to maintain the integrity of the tissues of the of the vulva, the reproductive health. Um, we also have the mental there. There are about 14 of them on in the workbook. So, you may want to look at that. um not that you may want to look at that at the end of this lesson

40:18 of day one I would want you to go to your workbook and then do the task there you know it will help you for the pregnant women you look there there's a lot you can do maybe you want to focus on their muscularkeeletal problems that are there you want to prevent or you want to treat you can decide to take the pregnant woman as a whole or you can decide to even you know narrow down and just pick one aspect of the pregnant woman and focus on it. You also want to look at how to improve their lifestyle after they giving birth. So there's a whole lot a whole lot a whole lot that we can do. This is just for you to have a feel of what the um find your practice

41:04 gold is. Okay. So out of the few that we have checked, which of the specialties do you feel comfortable with enough to be financially invested? What did you find? Let me see your response in the chat box. Okay, so we've come to the end of um lesson one for day one and

41:53 the lesson recap for today. In this lesson, you found out you have an embedded capacity to start a pelvic physio business. You also made pelvic business decisions. You saw how pelvic floor physiootherapy can position you for impact and visibility. And ultimately you found your PG. You found your PG. Um so now practice with the FYPG workbook and we'll see on day two. I see some references here in the chat. Okay, just a minute.