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How to Actually Be an Evidence-Based Clinician: An Interview with Taryn Hallam
Reading research and actually understanding what it means for the patient in front of you are two VERY different things.
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Reading research and actually understanding what it means for the patient in front of you are two VERY different things.
And there may be nobody in pelvic health better at bridging that gap than Taryn Hallam.
Taryn has essentially made research translation her full-time job—reading the enormous amount of pelvic health research being published and asking:
What does this actually mean in the clinic?
Because the abstract doesn't always tell the whole story.
As Taryn puts it, the abstract is like the trailer for a movie. Sometimes the trailer accurately represents the movie. And sometimes...all the best parts were in the trailer. 😆
In this episode, we're diving deep into how we actually become evidence-based clinicians.
We talk about:
📊 Statistical significance vs. clinical significance. A result can be completely “statistically significant” and still be basically meaningless to your patient.
🎬 Why you can't just read the abstract. What gets highlighted in an abstract isn't necessarily what matters most clinically.
🔬 Why one research paper is never the whole story. Taryn compares a single paper to opening a 450-page novel to page 210 and expecting to understand the plot.
🤰 The danger of extrapolating research to the wrong population. What happens when research on young, nulliparous athletes gets applied to a completely different patient sitting in front of us?
🤷♀️ Why “we don't know” is sometimes the most evidence-based answer. We don't need to pretend the research is more definitive than it actually is.
🧠 How experience changes our ability to assess. Can research showing poor reliability among relatively inexperienced clinicians really tell us what an expert with decades of pattern recognition can—or can't—feel?
🔥 And yes...we ask Taryn about the internal exam debate.
Her answer?
Let's just say she has some thoughts. 😆
We talk prolapse, stress urinary incontinence, levator avulsion, pelvic floor muscle training, tone, overactivity—and why Taryn believes an internal examination remains an essential component of best-practice pelvic health care.
But she also makes an incredibly important distinction:
Saying virtual care has value and saying an internal examination adds important clinical information are NOT contradictory statements.
Both can be true.
And sometimes our profession gets into arguments because we haven't even agreed on what question we're debating.
🎟️ Learn From Taryn Hallam at PelviCon 2026!
If you like Taryn on the podcast, you are going to LOVE her at PelviCon.
She's bringing us two completely different—and appropriately disruptive—presentations.
Should Possible Levator Avulsion Change Our Approach?
This one is for the research nerds. 🤓
Taryn is digging into the actual studies and statistics, including what odds ratios and p-values really tell us, to ask whether suspected levator avulsion should change how we approach someone in those first few months postpartum.
Coital Incontinence & Female Ejaculation
And this one tackles a topic many of us simply weren't taught enough about.
Our patients may be nervous enough to bring these concerns up. We shouldn't be sitting there thinking, Oh crap...what do I say now? 😬
Taryn is going to give us the research, understanding and language to have these conversations with confidence.
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▶️ Lifetime access to all the recordings so you can revisit these talks whenever they're relevant to a patient
About Taryn Hallam
Taryn Hallam is the founder of Women's Health Training Associates (WHTA) in Australia and one of the world's leading pelvic health educators.
She's trained more rehab providers in pessary fitting than anyone else and has become one of the profession's go-to voices for translating pelvic health research into information clinicians can actually use.
Her Research Update helps clinicians keep up with the enormous amount of new evidence being published, understand the statistics behind it, put individual studies into context—and most importantly, figure out what it actually means for patient care.
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Nicole Cozean, PT, DPT, WCS
Founder of Pelvic PT Rising and PelvicSanity Physical Therapy in Southern California.
Dedicated to forever changing pelvic health with online clinical courses to help you be more confident in your practice and business resources to help start and grow pelvic health businesses.
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