Rodriguez LV

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
2026
Association of widespread pain and peak alpha frequency cannot be isolated to a single network.
Pain reports ·doi:10.1097/pr9.0000000000001436

IntroductionPeak alpha frequency (PAF), an electroencephalography measure, has gained interest due to its association to pain-related neural processes in both healthy and clinical populations. In healthy groups, PAF derived from the sensori…

2024
Believing women: a qualitative exploration of provider disbelief and pain dismissal among women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome from the MAPP research network.
International urogynecology journal ·doi:10.1007/s00192-023-05677-0

Introduction and hypothesisAlthough allusions to the importance of a good physician-patient relationship are present throughout the interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) literature, qualitative analysis of patients' perspecti…

2022
Is Pelvic Floor Muscle Tenderness a Distinct Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Phenotype? Findings from the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network Symptom Pattern Study.
The Journal of urology ·doi:10.1097/ju.0000000000002679

PurposeOf women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome 85% have concomitant pelvic floor muscle tenderness (PFT). The significance of this finding is incompletely under…

2014
The MAPP research network: design, patient characterization and operations.
BMC urology ·doi:10.1186/1471-2490-14-58

BackgroundThe "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain" (MAPP) Research Network was established by the NIDDK to better understand the pathophysiology of urologic chronic pelvic pain syndromes (UCPPS), to inform future…