About This Course

Communication is a core clinical skill, as essential to physiotherapy as anatomy, assessment and treatment. In pelvic health, conversations can be complex, sensitive and emotionally challenging, making effective communication an important part of clinical care.

This course explores how pelvic health physiotherapists can communicate with clarity, compassion and clinical precision using evidence-informed frameworks.

 Communication is not simply a personality trait. It is a clinical skill that can be learned, practised and refined. 

Course Details


 3 hours of pre-recorded theory 

 Learn at your own pace 

 Certificate of completion with learning hours indicated 

 Downloadable presentation slides 

 Clinical communication demonstrations and practical scenarios 

 Audio and video practice tasks with structured reflection exercises 

 Flexible participation: watch the course content or complete additional practice and self-reflection activities 

What You'll Learn

Develop a structured approach to clinical communication in pelvic health physiotherapy, from initiating consultations and gathering information to building therapeutic relationships, explaining management options and supporting behaviour change.

Foundations of Clinical Communication

Understand the role of communication as a clinical skill, including how verbal and non-verbal communication can influence therapeutic relationships, patient understanding and engagement.

The Calgary-Cambridge Framework

Explore a structured approach to medical communication, including initiating the consultation, gathering information, providing structure, building the relationship, explanation and planning, and closing the session.

Communication During Assessment and Treatment

Explore practical communication strategies for pelvic health assessment and management, including explaining examinations, obtaining informed consent, discussing findings and developing collaborative treatment plans.

Practice, Feedback and Reflection

Use structured reflection and practice to observe, practise and refine your communication skills.

Who Is This Course For?

✓  Pelvic health physiotherapists wanting to strengthen their clinical communication skills. 
✓  Physiotherapists who are new to pelvic health and would benefit from a structured, trauma-informed approach to patient communication. 
✓  Experienced pelvic health physiotherapists wanting to refine their communication techniques and clinical interactions. 
✓  Clinicians interested developing stronger therapeutic relationships. 

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Course Presenter

Mandy Roscher

Mandy Röscher is a Physiotherapist living in Brisbane, Australia Mandy qualified as a Physiotherapist from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2008. She has worked in Private Practice since she qualified. She has a keen special interest in all things Pelvic Health. Mandy has a passion for teaching and mentoring and has presented to thousands of Physiotherapists globally. Her courses, while based on the most current evidence available, are extremely clinically orientated. She focuses on the clinical application and integration of current research and practice with the goal being that course participants leave feeling their circle of competence has increased.