Author - Becky Chamberlain

Female pelvic floor clinical training course 7th – 8th September

It was lovely to welcome a new group of delegates to our training centre on 7th September for the assessment of female pelvic floor muscle dysfunction practical training course. In total we had ten delegates arrive from around the country for the 1.5 day course. Thank you to all for their feedback and to Julia for delivering another successful training course. Here's what our delegates wrote in their feedback: 'Fantastic course. Julia is brilliant and knowledgeable. I am keen to come on further training...

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South West ACA – Female Pelvic Floor Training Course

Thank you to our delegates who attended our training course on female pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. Your feedback is great to read: 'Exceeded expectations. Brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable too.' - Specialist Physiotherapist 'Excellent. Very pleasant venue. Julia is a fabulous teacher. She explains in depth and makes you feel comfortable in an unusual classroom situation.' - Specialist Nurse Bladder & Bowel Service We have six more training days scheduled up to January next year, head to our shop to find out availability and...

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‘Extremely valuable, educational and very informative!’

Our female pelvic floor course was attended by nine delegates from a variety of clinical backgrounds, including midwifery, bladder and bowel, urology and sports therapy. It's great to read that they all found the 1.5 day course to be beneficial to their knowledge and practice. We hope to welcome them back to one of our other courses soon. Here are some of the comments that were left: 'I now feel confident to perform examinations and plan treatment programmes.' - Urology Clinical Lead Nurse 'Exceeded...

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ACA Conference Bristol – de Smit Medical attend as Platinum Sponsors

de Smit Medical had a great time attending the ACA National Conference as Platinum Sponsors on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th May. This was a special event for us for a few reasons. First of all, it was held in Bristol, only a stone's throw away from our offices! Our symposium 'A focus on anorectal assessment' was delivered by Consultant Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Julia Herbert. This talk was well attended by the delegates at the event, thank you for joining us for...

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Our ninth course of the year – eight more to go!

We are storming through our busy schedule of clinical training courses here at our facility in South Gloucestershire. Here is the photo from the latest course that took place on 13-14th April. Thanks to all our delegates for choosing to train with us and course tutor, Julia Herbert. Once again it's great to hear that everybody found the learning environment comfortable and felt at ease during the practical session. Next up is the female pelvic floor course next week! Check our schedule for the...

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Pelvic floor course brings continence advisors from across the country together

'I really enjoyed the course and learnt a lot. It was good to meet others in similar roles to discuss practices.' - Continence Advisor This week our female pelvic floor course was attended by delegates from across the country, all with roles within the field of continence. From their feedback, it's great to see that they thought the theoretical and practical content and the delivery of the course was 5/5. A Community Bladder and Bowel Nurse also left these comments about the practical...

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Our latest biofeedback course – attended by international delegates!

The two day biofeedback and neuromuscular course last week was attended by delegates from across the UK and also from other countries. It was great to receive feedback from the group that it was a worthwhile for them to travel to attend this course and that they would like to come back to attend our other courses. 'Really great course. Very comfortable environment for learning, engaging and ask questions.' This course covers the theory supporting the use of biofeedback and neuromuscular electrical...

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Female Pelvic Floor Course – 9-10th February 2022

Thank you to our delegates for attending the assessment of female pelvic floor training course last week. It's great to read your feedback of the content and delivery of the course. 'Looking forward to taking skills and knowledge forward.' - Continence Specialist Prescribing Nurse 'Very informative. I will have more confidence in the clinical setting, performing examinations and putting into practice.' - Bladder and Bowel Nurse Specialist. This course is the most popular of the four that we run at our training centre in...

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