Chronic Female Pelvic Pain-Part 2: Differential Diagnosis and Management

Pain Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-141

  Nelson, Patricia ^a   Apte, Gail ^b   Justiz, Rafael ^c   Brismeé, Jean Michel ^b   Dedrick, Gregory ^b   Sizer, Philip S ^b  

^a EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c Saint Anthony Pain Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Female; Intervention; Management; Pelvic pain; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ESTROGEN; GABAPENTIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; GOSERELIN; HYDROXYZINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREGABALIN; ROPIVACAINE; STEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADNEXA DISEASE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL NEUROLYSIS; CHLAMYDIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLITORIS; CLITORIS PAIN; COCCYGEAL BONE; COCCYGEAL PAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRYONEUROLYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; GONORRHEA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INGUINAL REGION; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LABORATORY TEST; LICHEN PLANUS; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MASSAGE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE LIGATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NEURITIS; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OBTURATOR NERVE; ORAL SURGERY; OVARY FUNCTION; PELVIC CONGESTION SYNDROME; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PROCTALGIA FUGAX; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUDENDAL NERVE; PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY TREATMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RELAXATION TRAINING; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TERATOGENICITY; THERMOCOAGULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGINITIS; VENOUS CIRCULATION; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS; VULVAR VESTIBULITIS SYNDROME; VULVODYNIA;

EID: 84856576925     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2011.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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