Practical Aspects of Establishing a Sexual Pain Center

Female Sexual Pain Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 244-249

  Spadt, Susan Kellogg ^a   Whitmore, Kristene E ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment and diagnostic testing; Categories of sexual pain etiologies; Coordinating treatment; Developing an approach, philosophy, and mission statement; Female sexual pain complex perceptive biologic phenomenon; Patient convenience items sexual pain practices stocking and selling variety of "support" items for sexual rehabilitation and comfort; Physical setting of sexual pain center portraying calming, caring, nonrushed professional attitude; Sexual pain care team; Sexual pain complex interplay of physiologic and psychosocial etiologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953943806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308136.ch37     Document Type: Chapter

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