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About this site

PelvicPhysiotherapy.com is designed to make recent advances by physiotherapists in the field of pelvic floor 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 Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and has a diploma in Physiotherapy in Obstetrics & Gynaecology since 1991. She worked in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin and in 1993 set up Milltown Physiotherapy Clinic, which now has 12 Chartered Physiotherapists and four reception staff. She treats pelvic floor dysfunction in men, women and children including bladder and bowel dysfunction, overactive pelvic floor disorders and chronic pelvic pain. Maeve teaches pelvic floor assessment and manual therapy of the pelvic floor to physiotherapy colleagues throughout Ireland and the UK. She is a member of the Irish Clinical Interest Group of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists - Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's Health & Continence, the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's Health, UK, the International Continence Society, the International Pelvic Pain Society and is Physiotherapy Ambassador from Ireland to the International Urogynaecology Association. Maeve was awarded the title Specialist Member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists in November 2008.

Publications & Research

Whelan, M. (2006) Changing The Pelvic Floor. Journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women’s Health pp 20-27, Number 98 2006

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

Whelan, M. (2010) Exploring Pelvic Pain in Men. Irish Medical Times, June 24 2010

Whelan M (2012) Practical anatomy, examination, palpation and manual therapy release techniques for the pelvic floor . In: Chaitow,L. & Lovegrove Jones, R. (eds) Chronic Pelvic Pain & Dysfunction; Practical Physical Medicine, Chapter 13 pp311-338, UK: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone