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A physiotherapist in private practice in pelvic and perineal rehabilitation since 2014, holding a university diploma in functional perineal disorders. President of the Association française de rééducation en pelvi-périnéologie, she took part in the working group of the HAS, the French national health authority, on urinary incontinence in women.
2014
French State Diploma in Physiotherapy, EKP-ADERF in Paris
2019
University diploma in the management of functional perineal disorders, Lyon 1
2024
Elected president of the Association française de rééducation en pelvi-périnéologie
2025
HAS working group on urinary incontinence in women
Hands-on practice in a mountain area, coupled with an unusual degree of institutional involvement: multidisciplinary team meetings at the hospital, the presidency of a learned society, peer review of good practice guidelines. It is this movement back and forth between the clinic and the guidelines that feeds her teaching.
2014 · Initial training
EKP-ADERF physiotherapy training institute, in Paris.
Since 2014 · Clinical
Practising in the Hautes-Alpes, within a multidisciplinary health centre since 2021.
2019 · University
Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1.
Since 2021 · Hospital
In pelvic and perineal rehabilitation at Gap hospital since 2021, then in endometriosis at Gap and Briançon since 2023.
Since 2021 · Learned society
Board member since 2021, member of the organising committee of its first conference, and president since April 2024.
Since 2024 · Teaching
Therapeutic patient education workshops in endometriosis since 2024, instructor in anorectal rehabilitation since 2025, supervising students from physiotherapy schools and university diploma programmes since 2018.
HAS working group (2025): contributed to writing the updated guidelines on the management of urinary incontinence in women.
Peer reviewer of the SNFCP guidelines (2024), on good practice in anorectal rehabilitation.
Conference speaker since 2021, at the medical and allied health scientific conferences in the field.
Relationships and sex education: classes taught in secondary schools since 2022.
Anorectal rehabilitation, which she teaches with Isabelle Gien. Delphine brings the biopsychosocial approach, therapeutic patient education and the current state of the guidelines, whose drafting she follows closely.
Discover the courseDelphine Girard is a physiotherapist who qualified in 2014 and holds a university diploma in the management of functional perineal disorders from Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1. She works in private practice in pelvic and perineal rehabilitation in the Hautes-Alpes and has been president of the Association française de rééducation en pelvi-périnéologie, the French pelvic and perineal rehabilitation society, since 2024.
She teaches anorectal rehabilitation with Isabelle Gien, on site. The programme, duration and price are on the course page.
In 2025 she took part in the working group drafting the updated HAS guidelines on the management of urinary incontinence in women, and in 2024 she peer-reviewed the SNFCP good practice guidelines on anorectal rehabilitation.
The prerequisites are set out on the course page. Our courses in this field are gathered on the pelvic floor rehabilitation page, and funding arrangements are detailed in our guides to FIFPL, the French training fund for self-employed practitioners, and DPC, the national continuing professional development scheme.
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