Module 5 - Menopause & Aging

Evidence-Based Clinical Training Across the Full Menopausal Transition — from Perimenopause Through Older Adulthood

Perimenopause can begin in the mid-thirties. Menopause unfolds over years. And the decade that follows brings cascading changes — to bone density, cardiovascular health, metabolism, joints, sleep, mood, and cognition.

Yet most allied health training treats menopause as an endpoint rather than a clinical landscape. Your patients arrive with frozen shoulders, joint pain, fatigue, brain fog, and anxiety — and the underlying hormonal picture often goes unaddressed.

This module is the clinical training you need to support your patients before, during, and after, the transition that reshapes everything.

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📖 Read the Whole Picture

See beyond the presenting complaint. Perimenopause and menopause touch every system — joints, bone, cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive. Build the clinical framework to recognize how hormonal shifts are shaping what shows up on your table and learn the latest evidence, guidelines, and risks for menopause hormone therapy.

👌🏽 Adapt Your Approach

Apply techniques that account for where your patient is hormonally. Osteopathic and manual therapy techniques adapted to the menopausal body — including frozen shoulder, joint hypermobility changes, and connective tissue considerations — so your hands-on care keeps pace with what's happening systemically from dysregulation, to adrenal fatigue, to sleep disturbance.

📏 Extend Your Reach

Support your patients through the decades that follow. Practical strategies across bone health, cardiovascular wellness, sleep, and cognition — so you're equipped to contribute meaningfully to your patients' healthy aging, not just their immediate symptoms. Guidelines for exercise and outcome targets for longterm functional mobility and injury prevention.

The Certification Difference

💡 Clinical Expertise

Assessment-based, not attendance-based. The credential means you've demonstrated competency — not just sat through the hours. That distinction matters to your patients, your colleagues, and the public you serve.

🌀 Integrative Care Model

A collaborative scope across the female lifespan. Five connected modules — puberty, fertility, perinatal, pelvic health, menopause — so you see how patterns in one life stage shape the next and how health disciplines intersect to provide the best possible care.

⭐️ Professional Credibility

Built by clinicians, for clinicians. Evidence-informed content delivered by practitioners who work with these patients every week — and who respect your unique expertise.

Who is this for:

Physiotherapists · Chiropractors · Osteopathic Practitioners · Registered Massage Therapists · Athletic Therapists · Naturopathic Doctors · Pelvic Health Specialists · and any manual therapy practitioner working with women.

It's the right fit if you:

Want to specialize in or expand your women's health practice
You regularly see women in perimenopause or menopause and want to offer more than symptom management
You want to apply evidence-based, patient-centred care for women from midlife through healthy aging
You're building toward the full Women's Health Certification
You're seeing presentations — frozen shoulder, fatigue, joint pain, mood changes — where the hormonal context is almost certainly relevant but you don't have a framework for it

You'll build a clear clinical picture of what's happening hormonally and systemically:

The sequence of hormonal decline and its effects on other endocrine axes and organ systems
Metabolic consequences: weight changes, insulin resistance, fatigue
Bone density, cardiovascular risk, and autoimmune considerations
Musculoskeletal presentations including frozen shoulder and joint pain
Mental health: anxiety, depression, and cognitive changes
Normal age-related changes by system
Ethics in aging, ageism awareness, determinants of healthy aging

You'll move from understanding to application:

Patient-centred assessment adapted to menopausal presentations
Outcome measures and exercise adaptations appropriate for older women
Prevention and lifestyle recommendations: sleep, stress, nutrition, movement
Case-based reasoning across four realistic patient scenarios spanning ages 35 to 65+
Hands-on workshop: manual therapy approaches adapted to common menopause-related conditions
Multidisciplinary collaboration and communication across care teams

5-Module Discount

Puberty · Fertility · Pregnancy · Pelvic Health · Menopause & Aging

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Meet Your Instructors

Valerie Namer, MD (France, DO(MP)

Valérie Namer brings a rare combination of medical and osteopathic expertise to women's health education. She holds a medical degree with a specialty in endocrinology from France and is a graduate of the Centre Ostéopathique du Québec, where she now directs the post-graduate program.

In her Montreal clinical practice, Valérie works exclusively in women's health — from puberty and hormonal health through fertility, obstetrics, and postnatal care. She has been teaching and lecturing on osteopathy and women's health across Canada and internationally for many years, including in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice course at McGill University.

Valérie currently supervises Master's dissertations at the School of Health Sciences Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), and has been a member of the Science and Health Committee at Séréna Québec since 2023. She is a registered member of Ostéopathy Québec.

Sharmila Kulkarni, PT, DO(MP), MSc Aging & Health

Sharmila Kulkarni is a physiotherapist and osteopathic manual practitioner with over 25 years of clinical experience and a Master's degree in Aging & Health. Her practice has always centred on the full arc of women's health — and on the gaps in practitioner training that leave patients underserved at every stage of it.

That clinical frustration became a professional mission. As co-founder and director of Integration Health + Education, Sharmila has built a continuing education community grounded in multidisciplinary collaboration, rigorous curriculum, and the conviction that better-trained practitioners produce better patient outcomes.

She brings that same standard to the Women's Health Certification — co-teaching and shaping a program designed not just to add knowledge, but to build genuine clinical competency in women's health across the lifespan.