Clinician. Educator. Advocate.
Welcome to my website! I’m Marie-Josée (MJ) and I have been a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist for 25 years. My interest in pelvic health started a few years after graduation and I never looked back!
I opened the first pelvic health physiotherapy clinic in Northern Ontario and I am grateful to my patients, for their courage and trust in allowing me to be part of their health team. My patients have been my greatest teachers and I am a better clinician because of them. I am humbled daily by their stories, struggles, courage and successes. It is a privilege to be their physiotherapist.
As a pelvic health advocate, I believe in giving back and sharing knowledge through public speaking and as an instructor with Pelvic Health Solutions. My artistic side has led me to draw and develop a 3D pelvic floor model used worldwide as an educational tool which you can find at www.totalpelvichealth.ca
my Mission
To provide hope and empower my patients to gain the tools needed to manage their pelvic conditions and feel well again. I am passionate about giving back to my community. I teach and mentor health professionals in the field of pelvic health. I strive to keep myself up to date on all the newest research in pelvic health and I am always seeking knowledge in this exciting field.
““Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it””
achievements
Pelvic Health Instructor since 2012 with the teaching company Pelvic Health Solutions. Courses that I teach:
Level 1 - The Physical Therapy Approach to Anyone Experiencing Urinary Incontinence
Level 2 - The Role of Physiotherapy in the Treatment of Anyone Experiencing Pelvic Pain Through a Trauma Informed Lens
Pregnancy Course: Pregnancy, Pelvic Girdle Pain and The Pelvic Floor
Started the first pelvic health clinic in Northern Ontario in 1997.
Developed a pelvic floor anatomical model sold on www.totalpelvichealth.ca.
Preceptor for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Preceptor for nurses specializing in Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Canada (NSWOCC)
Clinical investigator for 2 pelvic health research projects with McMaster University.
Authored a trauma article for the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division “Une pratique sensible pour la physiothérapie en santé pelvienne”
Public speaking - ATPA combined section meeting, Physio North conferences, Cancer Day conferences, Pelvic Health Solutions Symposium, Nurse Practitioner and Physician In-services.
Presented at the Society for Pelvic Medicine, Canmore, 2023 - “Tips and Tricks for Treating Pelvic Pain”
Guest podcaster - see podcasts listed below.
Podcast Interviews and Guest blog posts
Prosper Menopause - Leaking the Truth, a Physiotherapist’s Guide to Bladder Control in Menopause
Solving Healthcare with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng - How your pelvic health affects your lifestyle and sexual health with MJ Forget
The Connected Yoga Teacher - Pelvic floor 101 with MJ Forget
Restful Parenting - All Things Pelvic Floor Health with MJ Forget
Coffee with the Sarlos - Pelvic Trauma with MJ Forget and Dr. Katrina Neil
Coffee with the Sarlos - The MJ You’ve Been Hearing About EP 66
Coffee with the Sarlos - MJ - Round 2 EP 77
Professional memberships
International Continence Society (ICS)
International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)
International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS)
The Canadian Society for Pelvic Medicine
National Vulvodynia Association
Canadian Physiotherapy Women’s Health Division