Coru<\/a>, the regulator for health and social care professionals, and relate to a consultation on February 7th, 2023, with a then 21\u2011year\u2011old law student.<\/p>\nThe patient, whose identity was anonymised as A, alleged that during the consultation the physiotherapist made a number of inappropriate comments, including referring to her as his \u201cgirlfriend\u201d, saying he was \u201cso proud of my girlfriend\u201d, and asking her: \u201cWhen are we going to third base?\u201d<\/p>\n
In her evidence, A said this latter comment as a colloquialism for oral sex. <\/p>\n
The physiotherapist\u2019s identity has been anonymised to B following a prior ruling of the committee.<\/p>\n
A told the inquiry that at the end of the February consultation as she was about to rise from an all\u2011fours \u201cspiderman\u201d position during an exercise, B patted or spanked her left buttock \u201cin the middle of the cheek\u201d for about one second.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more than a pat, less than a spank. I was really shocked,\u201d she told Neasa Bird, barrister for the registrar.<\/p>\n
A also raised concerns about what she described as \u201ca completely excessive, inordinate\u201d amount of touching of her hips, bum and stomach area during that consultation and a previous appointment on January 9th, 2023. <\/p>\n
She said she attended nine consultations with B between September 2022 and February 2023 following an acute injury sustained while hiking in Dingle, Co Kerry. <\/p>\n
After she contacted the clinic\u2019s clinical director on February 23rd about her concerns, B wrote a \u201cheartfelt\u201d letter apologising for any upset caused. <\/p>\n
A made a complaint to Coru in January 2024.<\/p>\n
The registrar alleges that the allegations amount to poor professional performance and professional misconduct. <\/p>\n
B denies that he inappropriately touched A. <\/p>\n
The inquiry resumes on Monday with evidence from the expert witness, a chartered physiotherapist, for the registrar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin\u2011based male physiotherapist lightly patted or spanked a young female patient on the buttock during a consultation,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46477,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-413179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-coru","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}