Monahan no longer works at thebodyworkspractice.co.uk — that site and practice is run by his wife.
He now runs thepelvicpainclinic.co.uk from Islington, just north of the City of London.
I had to ban Karl Monahan back in 2012 because he began promoting infection theorists like Simon Rattenbury —a man whose entire training was supposedly in pathology and infection (especially Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma infection)— and who still believes that much of CP/CPPS is infectious in origin (thus breaching our rules
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1642 ). This is not what modern science is telling us, and Simon Rattenbury is therefore an opinion outlier whose theories I won't have promoted at the forum, even indirectly.
Rattenbury is a microbiologist (he claims, cannot find his qualifications anywhere, not even at his Linked-In page) who at the time (2012) was running a lab at the Free Hospital in London. His lab was in financial trouble and going broke, according to documents online that he authored himself. This culminated in him leaving lab work and now he works as a business manager for Serosep, specialising in chlorine sterilisation and fumigation. So you can see why he would have pushed the idea that CPPS is microbial ... more business for his sinking lab.
Rattenbury also took a few swipes at David Wise, implying that the Wise-Anderson Protocol is a money making scam, and since I know that to be untrue, I won't have a man who believes it promoted at my forum — period! There is a high success rate for the Wise-Anderson Protocol, but the 20-30% who are not helped (for a variety of reasons, often poor compliance with the protocol) end up seeing people like Rattenbury, thus giving him the (mistaken) impression of universal failure. None of the successes would visit him, obviously. As a scientist, he should know that, and I suspect he does, but he went ahead and smeared the Wise-Anderson Protocol anyway. Poor show!
Other objections to Karl from our members have been:
- High prices
- Lack of privacy at his Harley St clinic
- Refuses to touch the front part of the internal pelvis (I cannot understand why ... perhaps he thinks that this could be seen as a sexual thing?)
- Advises clients to use reverse kegels, which I don't recommend because tensing the stomach can be counterproductive. If you do use reverse kegels, make sure to keep the abdominal muscles relaxed
Karl also seem to be in cahoots with Bill Taylor, who is discussed
elsewhere on this forum.
Also note this review:
viewtopic.php?p=56477#p56477