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About this site
PelvicPhysiotherapy.com is designed to make recent advances by Physiotherapists in the field of Pelvic Dysfunction available to the public. This site has been created by Maeve Whelan.
Maeve Whelan
Maeve Whelan is a Specialist Chartered Physiotherapist in Private Practice in Dublin. She qualified from TCD in 1986 and completed a post graduate diploma in Physiotherapy in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in 1991, she worked in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin and since 1993 has worked in Milltown Physiotherapy Clinic seeing patients privately. She treats pelvic dysfunction of any origin resulting in widely varied symptoms including bladder and bowel control problems, overactive pelvic floor disorders and pelvic pain. She treats men and children as well as women. Maeve teaches pelvic floor assessment and manual therapy of the pelvic floor to physiotherapy colleagues throughout Ireland and the UK. She is a committee member of the Clinical Interest Group of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists called Chartered Physiotherapists in Women’s Health & Continence. She attends National and International Conferences regularly and is a member of the International Continence Society and the International Pelvic Pain Society. Maeve was awarded the title Specialist Member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists in November 2008.
Links
Patients Information & Support Groups
Interstitial Cystitis Association www.ichelp.org
The Endometriosis Association www.endometriosisassn.org
The Pelvic Partnership www.pelvicpartnership.org.uk
US based support group www.pudendelhelp.com www.vaginismus.com
Pelvic Pain Support Network www.pelvicpain.org.uk
Professional Practices
USA, California - Elizabeth Rummer & Stephanie Prendergast California, USA www.PelvicPainRehab.com
Ireland, Dublin - Maeve Whelan, Noreen Dockery, Ruth O’Connor, Milltown Physiotherapy Clinic www.milltownphysiotherapy.com
Organizations
International Pelvic Pain Society www.pelvicpain.org
International Society for Study of Vulvar Disease www.issvd.org
National Vulvodynia Association www.nva.org
The Society for Pudendal Neuralgia www.spuninfo.org
Pilates: www.bodycontrol.co.uk
Yoga: www.yoga-ireland.com
Talks & Publications
| "A Headache in the Pelvis" - David Wise & Rodney Anderson |
| "The V Book" - Elizabeth Stewart |
| "Healing Pelvic Pain" - by Amy Stein |
| "Living With Pudendal Neuralgia" - by Vanesa Frank www.pudendal-neuralgia-book.com |
| Article - Whelan M (2008) Changing The Pelvic Floor - Journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women’s Health pp 20-27, Number 98 2006 |
| Article - Whelan M (2008) Advanced Manual Therapy for the pelvic floor In: Therapeutic Management of Incontinence and Pelvic Pain, Eds Haslam J, Laycock J Ch7 pp 60-61, Ch 11b pp 95-98 |