Overview
Essentials of Pelvic Floor Function, Dysfunction and Treatment REGISTER
Three Days (18 Hours) Workshop
Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Face-to-face)
9th -11th May 2024
In partnership with:
United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR); CIFAL Saudi Centre and Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
Certificate of completion from Queen Mary University of London, UK
Delivered by Professor Dalia Kamel
Professor of Physical Therapy for women’s Health and Director of Scientific Projects and International Publications Supporting Unit, Cairo University
The pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) are common disorder in the women’s health field with prevalence up to 40% of females. There are many factors to cause this disorder, but one of the main causes is the weakness or overactivity (spasm) in the pelvic floor muscles (PFMs). PFMs is going under stress during pregnancy, labour and menopause, all causes its weakness and the incidence of PFDs such as urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. On the other hand, PFMs overactivity can cause sexual disorders, pelvic pain, difficulty in passing urine or emptying bowel. Physiotherapy as a profession aims to prevent and treat diseases and disabilities through exercises and different manual and electrical techniques. Physical therapy for women’s health is a growing field in the physiotherapy with solid evidence base body of knowledge. So, there is a need to widen the scope of the practice and involve more trained physical therapy practitioners in women’s health field according to the guidelines of professional authorities in different parts of the world.
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Location
Queen Mary University, London, England EC1M 6BE, United Kingdom
She is currently, is a Professor of Physical Therapy for Women’s Health- Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University since 2017 – to present as well as the Director of Scientific projects and international publications supporting unit since 2021-present. She achieved her BScPT in 1996, MScPT in 2002 and PhDPT in 2006, all from Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University. In 2009, Dalia worked as an assistant Professor at Ahlia University, Bahrain then promoted to the rank of associated professor in 2012. Dalia has more than 50 international publications indexed in Scopus and/or web of Science (WOS), as well she serves as an editorial board member and/or reviewer in different prestigious international journals. Dalia got an annual appreciation for her distinguished international publication from Cairo University and was assigned as Director for Scientific project and international publications supporting unit at the Faculty of Physical Therapy. Furthermore, she presented her research in different parts of the world in international conferences and she served as head of the scientific committee, the annual international conference, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, 2022 & 2023. Since November 2022, Dalia was assigned as consultant at BUE, for the establishment of the Faculty of Physiotherapy. Dalia delivered many workshops in the field of rehabilitation in women's health as well she wrote a chronicle about the pelvic floor rehabilitation in the Author's Chronicle Section of www.siicsalud.com, 2014 in addition to publishing two books with LAMBART publications and rehabilitation of different types of incontinence.
