Katrine Petersen (MSc), Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner in Pain Management, Independent Prescriber
Katrine is the clinical lead physiotherapist in abdomino-pelvic pain and a first-point-of-contact practitioner working in a large multidisciplinary team at the Pain Management Centre at UCLH. She has a special interest in chronic abdomino-pelvic pain and pain education with the aim to support patients with non-medical self-management strategies, and has published and presented nationally and internationally.
Frawley H, Petersen K, Physiotherapy for Endometriosis chapter, Glob libr womne's med ISSN: 1756-2228; DOI 10.3843/GLOWM. 418263
Petersen, K. (2015) A Review of the Physiotherapy Pain Management Strategies in the Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain. Pain and Rehabilitation, 39; 23-29
Denneny D, Petersen K.,McLoughlin R.,Brook S., Hassan S. and C de C Willaims A. (2015) Trigger Point Manual Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Non-Cancer in Adults. Protocol. Cocrane Systematic Reviews DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011763
Published final write up:
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2018) July, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.06.019
McLoughlin R., Petersen K. & Brook S. (2014). Physiotherapy in Assessment and Management of Pain. Chapter in Abdominal and Pelvic Pain: From Definition to Best Practice, Messelink, B., Baranowski, A. & Hughes, J. (Eds); Wolters Kluwer Health.
Edwards, S., Mandeville, A., Petersen, K., Herron, K., Keeling, A., Merali, Z. & McLoughling R. Re-Connect: A model for working with pelvic pain patients on returning to sexual activity. British Journal of Pain. June 10 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463719854972
Denneny D, Frijdal A, Bianchi-Berthouze N, Greenwood J, McLoughlin R, Petersen K, Singh A, Williams ACdeC. The application of Psychologically Informed Practice: Observations of experienced physiotherapists working with people with chronic pain. Physiotherapy (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2019.01.014
Guidelines:
ESHRE guideline: Endometriosis (2022) https://www.eshre.eu/Guidelines-and-Legal/Guidelines/Endometriosis-guideline
NICE [NG210] Pelvic floor dysfunction; prevention and non-surgical management (2021)https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/NG210