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- Title
Management of chronic pelvic pain.
- Authors
KING, LOUISE P.
- Abstract
The article discusses the diagnosis and effective management of chronic pelvic pain (CPP), particularly among women. Also cited are the conditions linked to CPP like endometriosis, bladder pain syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome, how somatic peripheral sensitization of CPP patients can result in hyperalgesia, and some recommended treatments like progestins, danazol and GnRH agonists.
- Subjects
CHRONIC pain treatment; PELVIC pain diagnosis; PELVIC pain treatment; THERAPEUTIC use of progestational hormones; CHRONIC pain; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HYSTERECTOMY; PELVIC pain; IRRITABLE colon; DANAZOL; PAIN management; INTERSTITIAL cystitis
- Publication
Contemporary OB/GYN, 2021, Vol 66, Issue 11, p18
- ISSN
0090-3159
- Publication type
Article