Carolyn Vandyken BHScPT

Carolyn Vandyken, BHSc (PT), Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, graduated from McMaster University in 1986 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy and has practiced in a wide variety of clinical settings, focusing primarily on orthopedics. She has been a McKenzie credentialed physiotherapist since 1999 and has been a member of the Canadian College of Medical Acupuncture since 2002. Her clinical focus changed to Pelvic Health and Incontinence in 2001. She owned and managed her own clinical practice from 1999-2009; she then became the Clinical Practice Leader for Centric Health from 2009-2015, mentoring and training pelvic health physiotherapists throughout Canada.

Carolyn owns a Canadian-based teaching company, Pelvic Health Solutions and teaches internationally on the physiotherapy approach for pelvic floor problems. Together with co-owner Nelly Faghani, they teach a multitude of evidence-based pelvic floor courses for physiotherapists, nurses, doctors, midwives, and naturopaths. Carolyn currently manages her own clinic, Huntsville Pelvic Health and Pain Centre in Huntsville, Ontario. She splits her time between clinical work, teaching and research with Dr. Sinead Dufour at McMaster University.

Carolyn won the prestigious Woman of Distinction award from the YWCA in 2003 for her work in pelvic floor rehabilitation. She also won the Provincial Education Award from the Ontario Physiotherapy Association in 2015. Her patients have been her best teachers, and she is thankful for all that they share with her, and entrust to her.