Streamline your pelvic rehab practice with done-for-you patient education handouts that solve bowel dysfunction.
Pelvic health concepts can be complex;
Providing efficient patient care with confidence...shouldn't be.
Simplify Learning
Save Time
Improve Care
Make More Money
You don't have to struggle with:
❌ Overwhelm treating constipation, fecal incontinence, and bowel disorders.
❌ Confusion translating complex bowel health concepts into patient-friendly language.
❌ Spending HOURS+++ dissecting your colorectal rehab course manual creating handouts or piecemealing borrowed resources you don't even know you have the rights to use.
❌ Frustration repeating patient education points to the same patient at follow-up sessions and stalled plans of care.
❌ Self-doubt due to delayed client success.
What if you could...
Pull from bowel handouts created by pelvic rehab course instructors sharing the verbiage and instruction they provide patients in clinical practice?
Invite more confidence and flow into your treatment sessions, improve efficiency in your work day, and get better treatment outcomes?
Market with value, be perceived as the high-value private practice owner that you are, get more referrals, and have more time for what you value most?
INTRODUCING...
The Bowel Bundle
The Bowel Bundle is a comprehensive collection of 41 expertly designed handouts.
These resources cover a broad range of bowel health topics, offering invaluable insights into constipation, fecal incontinence, diet recommendations, and more. By equipping you with effective patient education tools, we aim to enhance your clinical practice, bolster patient understanding, and foster successful patient outcomes.
Pelvic Rehab Handout User Plan
1.
Buy Handouts
Click the link in the email sent to access your Pelvic Health Resources portal.
2.
Download Handouts
Save the patient education handouts in PDF format to a folder in your computer.
3.
Share with Patients
What you will get with these professionally designed patient education handouts written by course instructors...
Forms, Diaries & Medication Consultations
○ Bowel Function Intake Form
○ Food, Fluid & Bowel Diary
○ Medication Consultation Form
○ Bristol Stool Chart
○ Products Page
Diet, Fiber, and Gut Health
Constipation and its Relief
○ Medications & Constipation
○ Feel the urge? Don’t Delay!
○ Stress and Constipation
○ Bowel Massage
○ Exercises for constipation
○ Helpful Bathroom Habits
○ Travel Tips for Constipation
○ Self-Acupressure for Constipation
○ Constipation and Pelvic Floor Incoordination
Meditation and Stress-Relief Techniques
○ Meditation: Body Scan with Cleansing Breaths
○ Meditation: Tense & Release
○ Meditation: Visualizations
Fecal Incontinence and Management
○ Pelvic Brace for Fecal Incontinence
○ Pelvic Floor HEP for Fecal Incontinence
○ Exercises for Fecal Incontinence
Anal and Rectal Health
○ Skin Care and Fecal Incontinence
○ Healing Anal Fissures
○ Caring for Hemorrhoids
○ Rectocele & Prolapse
Steal this!
3 Free Patient Education Handouts:
1. Urge Drills
2. Constipation; Feel the Urge, Don't Delay!
3. Lumpectomy - Immediate Exercises & Selfcare
You are a pelvic health provider who wants to feel confident treating bowel issues efficiently and effectively getting ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews.
Constipation and Gut Health
Fecal Incontinence
Anal and Rectal Health
Susannah Haarmann, PT, WCS, CLT
- Author of The Bladder Bundle
- Faculty Member for Herman & Wallace teaching PF series 2013 - 2020
- Continuing education instructor for hundreds of PF1 participants.
We believe that education is the foundation of pelvic rehab.
We’ve all been there...fresh from our colorectal rehabilitation coursework, equipped with a wealth of clinical knowledge and ready to make a difference. But soon, we realize this challenge - explaining complex pelvic health concepts to patients isn't easy and it takes time to find our flow!
As a continuing education instructor, I want you to feel confident more quickly treating urogenital conditions which is why I created The Bowel Bundle. These handouts bridge communication between providers and patients who are eager to achieve success with conservative treatment.
Imagine a day of patient care where you no longer find yourself repeating explanations session after session, and patients aren’t just passive recipients of care but active participants. Studies reveal that only 30% of people are auditory learners and the majority comprehend at a 4th-grade level. This means that a significant portion of your patients could be left confused and overwhelmed.
The Bowel Bundle simplifies complex pelvic health concepts. These handouts are instrumental in improving communication and enhancing patient retention. They empower your patients, giving them clarity on the 'why' behind their symptoms and the 'how' of home programs which are crucial for achieving rehab goals.
The research shows that pelvic rehab should be the first line of treatment for many bladder issues, but often that isn't the standard of care today. We need more pelvic health providers who actually get the results leading to more buy-in from physicians and the public. The Bowel Bundle seeks to fill the void of inadequate patient education resources, ensuring everyone involved feels supported to achieve the best possible rehab outcomes.
Remember, your community depends on your pelvic health services. The Bowel Bundle is here to streamline your success, helping you feel more confident in patient care, leading teams, and growing your pelvic health practice!
Here’s to making a difference, one patient at a time.
Susannah Haarmann, PT, WCS, CLT
Streamline your clinical practice...
MOVE AWAY FROM
Overwhelm
We want to help you avoid:
- Diminishing retention of pelvic health concepts learned during coursework.
- Confusion and frustrating yourself and patients with complex explanations.
- Repeatedly needing to revisit teaching concepts and stalled plans of care.
- Poor buy-in from patients, cancellations and clients falling off your schedule.
FEEL MORE CLINICALLY
Confident
We want you to experience:
- Greater understanding and synthesis of course information.
- Improved clarity in explaining concepts leading to increased patient motivation.
- Patient care sessions that progress, are efficient, and more enjoyable.
- Heightened patient-provider trust which improves patient care retention.
- Greater success in patient care outcomes with more word-of-mouth referrals!
"Susannah's handouts in the bowel bundle are clear, informative and easy to use. They are applicable to men and women and to many diagnoses and conditions you will treat as a pelvic health therapist. These handouts, are by far, my most used resource. They are absolutely worth the investment."
Beatriz Sunderland-White
Value of The Bowel Bundle
Determine the TOTAL VALUE of this Bundle by calculating the following:
Estimate the amount of time it would take you to:
Outline the handouts you need for patient education: ___
Review your course material concepts: ___
Consult the research to write an evidence-based handout: ___
Write handout: ___
Re-write the handout in lay terms: ___
Find open-source images to use or purchase images: ___
Design handout: ___
Edit handout: ___
Total estimated time per handout: ___
Example of an average pelvic health therapist:
10 x 40 = 400
Hours per handout x the # of handouts in The Bladder Bundle
(Yes, it took me about 2.5 months to write The Bowel Bundle)
400 x $50 = $20,000!?! 😲
Figuring $50 is the average pay/hour of a rehab provider.
(Cost just to recoup time spent creating The Bowel Bundle)
$125
$125 / 40 = $3.12 per handout
Cents on the dollar considering the expertise and monumental hours it took to research, write, design & make available for you. ;)
Use these handouts for the LIFE of your practice!
Option to have PDF version personalized with your clinic logo & information at checkout.
What pelvic health practitioners are saying...
"Thanks so much Susannah! I have gotten such great feedback from patients regarding the handouts from your bowel and bladder bundles!"
Gretchen Quinn
FOX Rehabilitation
"I don't want to miss out on the latest and greatest of your handouts. I'm having great success with them so far as patients find them easy to understand. There is just enough info to prompt recall of our educational sessions without overwhelming the pt. Thank you so much!"
Alisa Herman, MPT
"I am so grateful for this wonderful resource you've put together. It makes educating my peeps and helping them seamless. :)"
Victoria Strickland
VTS Physical Therapy
How our patient education handouts have helped clinicians...
☝️ Video Testimonials from Pelvic Health Practitioners... ☝️
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How can I use the patient education handouts
These handouts were created for you to use in direct patient care to streamline education, enhance retention of information, patient compliance, and positive outcomes! You may also use them for small in-person community education events and marketing to local practitioners (if you do this, I recommend purchasing the personalized version of bundles). You may NOT use them for the development of online learning programs, as an adjunct to course curriculums, or upload them to shared electronic medical records within a multi-clinic or hospital setting. These handouts are copyrighted by the U.S. Library of Congress. You must keep the copyright in place on all handouts and they may not be modified.
What do I need to know about personalizing the handouts?
Personalizing your handouts with clinic information is a fantastic marketing approach for your rehab services as they can be shared with medical providers and friends, encouraging potential referrals! Pelvic Health Resources will add your logo and clinic information to the bottom of every handout; this requires about 2 hours to customize each handout and download them individually to a zip file that we send you. Expect to receive your custom handouts within 5-7 business days from your request; while we are customizing your handouts, you still have access to the non-personalized PDF version available in your Pelvic Health Resources course portal. The cost of the service to personalize each handout for you is $50 for the 2 hour time investment to complete.
Multiple clinician in my practice would benefit from using the handout. Is that possible?
Yes! Each bundle comes with individual user rights. If you add a pelvic health practitioner, you can purchase an additional user agreement for that clinician as your clinic grows. If that clinician leaves your practice (they do not retain the right to use the handouts - you do) your new hire replacement may use the handouts. Please come back to Pelvic Health Resources and purchase another user agreement for each new hire; this is an honor system, but we do keep records of user agreements in our system. Thank you for supporting this intensive handout library project!
What are the benefits of digital handouts?
Digital handouts are the most flexible; you can upload them to a patient's portal (it keeps them all in one place), email them to patients, or print an original copy that you can photocopy. Digital handouts are available in your Pelvic Health Resources portal so you don't have to pay for shipping! If you would like a print copy, simply take the full PDF version to your local print shop to have it printed and bound for you!
Can I share the digital handouts with other clinician?
No, but please tell them about Pelvic Health Resources! I know it may be tempting to share these files with a colleague to use, however, please do not. Creating these handouts is an intense process that requires outlining, research, writing, designing, purchasing images, editing, publishing & updating! And that doesn't even include the costs to make these available to you. You are literally paying cents on the dollar when you purchase these handouts! The small investment purchasing bundles backs my ability to create more handouts and resources for your practice! So, please support this handout initiative and the mission of Pelvic Health Resources to help providers like you achieve better patient outcomes and grow your practice! THANK YOU!
Are You Ready to Level Up Your Practice?
Say goodbye to the hassle of creating patient educational resources from scratch.
Embrace the simplicity, clarity, and effectiveness of the Bowel Bundle.
Enhance patient understanding, improve outcomes, and give your practice the boost it deserves!
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