Ms Edel de Buitleir
Overview
Edel has been a specialist paediatric physiotherapist for 17 years and worked in various specialities across plastic surgery including hand therapy, burns rehabilitation and scar management in children. Her work at GOSH mainly focuses on rehabilitation following complex plastic reconstructive surgery and children's facial palsy including the highly specialist area of facial re-animation surgery. She has worked both as a community paediatric physiotherapist and in tertiary level hospitals providing acute care including Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, St Andrew's Centre for Burns and Plastics, Chelsea and Westminster Burns Unit, Royal London Hospital and the Wellington Hospital. Edel's broad experience means she has an excellent understanding of the journey many children go through both before and after attending GOSH. Edel aims to treat every child holistically and works closely with her plastic surgeon colleagues to optimise the results of surgery.
Credentials
- Paediatric facial palsy assessment and rehabilitation
- Pre and post-op physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation for children undergoing complex plastics reconstructive surgery
- Children's facial palsy
- Musculoskeletal assessment
- Scar management
B.Sc Physiotherapy
Memberships:
Facial Therapy Specialists International (FTSI) (Membership Secretary & Research Sub-Committee)
Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP)
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
Edel serves on the Research Sub-Committee for Facial Therapy Specialists International.
She is actively involved in the 'ICHOMS' research project for paediatric facial palsy where she collects data as part of an international effort to improve outcomes everywhere for children with facial palsy.
She is a Research Assistant in a collaboration between the Plastic Surgery Department at GOSH and King’s College London investigating a congenital upper limb condition called Radial Dysplasia.
She has also worked as a Research Assistant on an international collaboration between GOSH and Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto to improve understanding of and assessment of scars in children.
News & Publications
Reissis D, Zubler C, Buitleir E, Brown S, Leckenby J, Grobbelaar A. Tools for effective patient education to manage outcome expectations in paediatric facial reanimation: a systematic review. Plast Aesthet Res. 2024;11:52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2347-9264.2024.29
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