Our Story
Who We Are
Nelly Faghani graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996. With her brother Ali, she currently owns and operates 5 physiotherapy clinics in the GTA. Nelly started to treat pelvic health in 1998 and continues to be actively involved in clinical practice, mentoring and teaching. She has helped develop Continence Programs that have been implemented in various long-term care facilities through Ontario. Nelly has spoken at numerous grand rounds, symposiums and conferences including The Urology Update, Canadian Ambulatory Care Conference, Ontario Physiotherapy Association Interaction Conference, Southlake Hospital OBGYN Clinical day, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist Annual Conference SOGC, Mount Sinai Mature Women’s Day and St. Michaels. Nelly has been a spokesperson for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, has co-authored a neuro-urology textbook chapter on incontinence and has hosted a round table at the International Pelvic Pain Society Conference. She regularly attends international conferences and prides herself on staying on top of the current pelvic health literature. Nelly has a passion treating this group of clients and plans to continue to help increase public awareness of various pelvic floor dysfunctions and their impact on quality of life.
Carolyn 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 has spoken at more than 50 conferences and grand round presentations throughout Canada and the United States. Carolyn was an invited speaker at the First World Congress for Abdominal-Pelvic Pain in Amsterdam (2013) on central pain mechanisms and abdomino-pelvic pain, and she has presented various workshops at international conferences, including the NOI Pain and Neurodynamics conference in Adelaide, Australia (2012) and the International Pelvic Pain Conference (2014). Carolyn co-authored three peer-reviewed framework articles with Sandra Hilton on the assessment and treatment of persistent pelvic pain; they also contributed a chapter to the IASP proceedings for the 1st World Congress on Abdomino-Pelvic Pain, and a chapter in the first textbook on the Overactive Pelvic Floor, edited by Tali Rosenbaum and Dr. Ana Padoa. Carolyn and Sandra co-authored the first book on patient-centered pain biology education for pelvic pain, Why Pelvic Pain hurts, along with physical therapist, Adriaan Louw. 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.
Carolyn and Nelly are both actively involved in Clinical Practice and consultations can be arranged at their clinics.
