Module 1 - Puberty & Adolescent Health

Adolescent Girls Deserve More Than a Scaled-Down Adult Assessment

Adolescence is one of the most dynamic — and underserved — stages of a woman's health journey. Rapid hormonal shifts, growth spurts, postural changes, and the onset of menstruation create a unique clinical picture that demands a specialized approach.

Despite this, most allied health training leaves practitioners underprepared to navigate this critical life stage with confidence.

Our Puberty & Adolescent Health Module fills in the gaps and more.

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What This Module Gives You

Focused Knowledge

Know what to assess, manage, and refer. Build a clinical framework for menstrual health, RED-S, scoliosis screening, and early signs of pelvic floor dysfunction in young patients.

Clinical Clarity

See what adult-focused training misses. Recognize the growth-related pain patterns, postural changes, and injury risks specific to the adolescent body — so a "young athlete with hip pain" stops being a guess.

Speak Their Language

Communicate in a way adolescents and parents trust. Practical language for talking about bodies, boundaries, and care — without treating teens like smaller adults or talking past the parent in the room.

Who is this for:

Physiotherapists · Chiropractors · Osteopathic Practitioners · Registered Massage Therapists · Athletic Therapists · Naturopathic Doctors · Pelvic Health Specialists · Any other manual therapy practitioner working in adolescent health.

It's the right fit if you:

Want to specialize in or expand your practice for adolescents
Are already seeing young patients and want deeper clinical grounding
Are ready to work confidently alongside specialists, and other allied health providers
Believe that the best patient outcomes happen when disciplines work together — not in silos
Care deeply about providing whole-person care during a pivotal transition for young women and girls

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.

By the end of this module you will:

✅ Describe normal pubertal development and hormonal changes
✅ Recognize and treat musculoskeletal dysfunctions related to adolescent growth - i.e. sports injuries, scoliosis, hypermobility
✅ Assess and manage menstrual irregularities and dysmenorrhea
✅ Apply ethical frameworks, consent procedures, and family-centred communication

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.

Sandhya Sahi-Jain, DPT, DO(MP)

Sandhya Sahi-Jain is a physiotherapist and osteopathic manual practitioner with a clinical foundation spanning neurology, orthopaedics, and pediatric care. She completed her Physical Therapy degree at the University of Toronto, including thesis work with SickKids Hospital, and holds an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Carleton University.

Sandhya earned her Master of Osteopathic Manipulative Science from the Canadian Academy of Osteopathy in Hamilton in 2012, and most recently completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2025. Her depth of training across manual therapy, neuroscience, and pediatric practice makes her particularly well-suited to the clinical complexity of adolescent health.

Sandhya is the creator of the Paediatric Foundations series of courses for manual therapists and teaches extensively in Canada.

5-Module Discount

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

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