Physiotherapeutic Management of Anorectal Dysfunction in Adults and Children

Brief outline (Detailed outline)

A selection of experts in the specialty will present on a range of relevant topics, with the focus being on physiotherapy assessment and interventions.

Objectives

• Participants will be informed on the prevalence, incidence, and definitions of anorectal dysfunction in adults and children, based on the best evidence available.
• Participants will be informed on the evidence based diagnostic tools used in the management of adults and children with anorectal dysfunction.
• Participants will be informed on the evidence based therapeutic options for the conservative management of adults and children with anorectal dysfunction, and on surgical interventions when conservative options have failed.

Organiser

Marijke Slieker-ten-Hove (Netherlands)

Dr. Marijke Slieker has a wealth of experience in organising (inter)national education programs. For 6 years she was a member of the education committee of the International Continence Society (ICS), is a member of the physiotherapy committee of both ICS and the International Urogynecology Association (IUGA), representing Dutch pelvic floor physiotherapy internationally. She completed her PhD on pelvic floor function and dysfunction of the female pelvic floor in September 2009 (including 8 publications). She has been a trainer, teacher and manager for 20 years and  is responsible for the postgraduate pelvic floor specialty in the Netherlands. She also works as a pelvic physiotherapist and researcher in the pelvic floor clinic in Erasmus University Medical Centre.

Speakers

Jenneke Kalkdijk (Netherlands)

Jenneke Kalkdijk gained her Masters on the subject of the pelvic floor, focussing on a systematic review on bowel disorders. She has over 15 years of teaching experience in both the pelvic physiotherapy education program and in stand-alone courses, workshops and symposia. The program has partly been made based on her clinical experience. She is the manager of a Pelvic and Pelvic Floor Health Center and is also involved in the development of multidisciplinary teams. Her clinical experience is focused on bowel disorders, irritable bowel syndrome and gastro-intestinal surgery and chronic abdominal pain

Marc Benninga (Netherlands) 

Dr. Marc Benninga studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After receiving his medical degree he worked as a research fellow at the department of paediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam with Jan Taminiau and Hans Büller. He performed extensive research on constipation and faecal incontinence in childhood. Subsequently he was trained in paediatrics at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After his paediatric training he undertook research at The Women’s and Childrens Hospital, Adelaide, Australia with Geoff Davidson and Taher Omari. During his stay in Adelaide his research focussed on maturation of upper gastrointestinal motility in very young infants. In 1999 he became a staff member in the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam and currently he is the head of the paediatric gastroenterology & nutrition department. The focus of his current clinical and research work is gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, recurrent abdominal pain, constipation and functional non-retentive faecal incontinence in childhood.

Richelle Felt-Bersma (Netherlands) 

Dr. R.J.F. Felt-Bersma is a gastroenterologist with  more than 85 publications. She is an (inter)national speaker and is also involved in postgraduate Master physiotherapy education. She works in the VU Medical Centre In Amsterdam and has a wealth of experience in diagnostic procedures in pelvic floor and bowel disorders. She is the secretary of the Dutch Society of Gastroenterology (NVGE).

Netty Bluyssen (Netherlands)

Netty Bluyssen is a Master of paediatric physiotherapy and an expert in paediatric bladder and bowel disorders. She developed the postgraduate education programme for paediatric pelvic physiotherapy which can only be undertaken by paediatric and pelvic physiotherapists. She is responsible for the development of a specialist paediatric unit for bladder problems in a regional hospital in Den Bosch and now works in the children's hospital of the Erasmus MC (Sophia). She has been a trainer/teacher for over 15 years and also contributes to an education program in Switzerland (in German). She is also involved in the development of multidisciplinary guidelines on constipation and faecal incontinence in children.

David Zimmerman (Netherlands)

Dr. David Zimmerman is a colorectal surgeon, working in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He followed his research and training program in the Erasmus University Center in Rotterdam. He is a well known international speaker, involved in education programs and strongly supporting PhD students. He has numerous publications on anorectal disorders to his name in peer reviewed journals. 

Richard A Th M Langemeijer (Netherlands)

Dr. Richard Langemeijer is a paediatric colorectal surgeon, embryologist and anatomist who has published and presented widely on the subject of bowel disorders in children, children with congenital malformations, and the late consequences of these malformations on the pelvic floor. He participates in the pelvic floor centre of the University Medical Centre of Groningen in the Netherlands and started a clinic for adult patients with problems and questions related to corrected congenital malformations of the pelvic floor, working with a colorectal surgeon, urologist, gynecologist, pelvic physiotherapist and trained nurse.

Ulla Due (Denmark)

Ulla Due is a physiotherapist and the chairwoman of the Danish ”Gynobs-forum”. For her Masters she developed and validated a screening questionnaire for women with anal sphincter ruptures. She has lectured for many years on the postgraduate courses on pelvic floor disorders in Denmark, and is working on the promotion of evidence based pelvic physiotherapy in Denmark. Ulla Due has been a pelvic physiotherapist for more than 15 years and has been working in the field of anorectal dysfunction for just as long. She is the author of a range of articles and information material for patients and health personnel.

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