Biography
Mélanie Morin is a physiotherapist by training, full professor at the School of Rehabilitation, researcher at the Research Center of the Center Hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke and director of the urogynecology research laboratory. Her clinical and research interests focus mainly on perineal and pelvic rehabilitation. She has developed expertise in pelvic floor muscle evaluation by developing and validating several tools including dynamometry, 3D / 4D ultrasound, elastosonography and electromyography.
Her work has helped to better understand the involvement of the pelvic floor muscles in the pathophysiology of various urogynecological conditions including vulvar pain. She has also performed several studies evaluating the effectiveness of innovative therapeutic approaches including laser, transcranial stimulation and manual techniques in women with pelvic pain.