Understanding multisymptom presentations in chronic pelvic Pain: The inter-relationships between the viscera and myofascial pelvic floor dysfunction

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 343-346

  Hoffman, Donna ^a  

^a Gundersen Lutheran Onalaska Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Myofascial pain; Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction; Somatovisceral convergence; Viscerosomatic convergence; Viscerovisceral convergence

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ALLODYNIA; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; IRRITABLE COLON; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE TIGHTNESS; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TRIGGER POINT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; VISCERAL DYSFUNCTION; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 80755133589     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-011-0215-1     Document Type: Review

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