Alina Filipe is an APA Titled Continence and Women’s, Men’s and Pelvic Health Physiotherapist and Member of the Australian College of Physiotherapists (MACP). She has over 17 years of experience, including more than 12 years dedicated to pelvic health. She holds a Master’s in Pelvic Health and works clinically across women’s, men’s, and pelvic health in Australia. 

 Alina is also the founder of a mentoring business providing advanced education for pelvic health physiotherapists in Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal. Her teaching focuses on integrating evidence-based practice with clinical reasoning, combining pelvic floor dysfunction, bladder and bowel physiology, pain science, and interdisciplinary care to improve decision-making in complex cases.

• The neurophysiology and mechanisms of Overactive Bladder (OAB): moving beyond symptom-based classification. 
• Identifying OAB phenotypes and contributing factors, including pelvic floor dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, hormonal influences, and nervous system sensitisation. 
• Evidence-based physiotherapy management strategies, including pelvic floor muscle training, bladder retraining, behavioural approaches, and patient education. 
• Common reasons why OAB management fails in clinical practice and how to improve treatment outcomes.
  

1 hours & 40 mins

$45 - this includes access to the video recording and a copy of the presentation notes.