BACKGROUND: A biopsychosocial approach to the understanding of pelvic pain is increasingly acknowledged. However, there is a lack of standardised instruments - or their use - to assess risk factors and their impact on pelvic pain in both cl…
BACKGROUND: Despite a high prevalence, menstrual issues are often normalised or trivialised and undermanaged in young people (YP). Uncontrolled dysmenorrhoea and heavy menstrual bleeding have a vastly negative impact on the quality of life …
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Few studies have explored what specific outcome measures contained in assessment tools for period and pelvic pain are most relevant to adolescents. Co-design is a valuable method of ensuring input from those with lived expe…
The exposure to adverse childhood experiences has been associated with the subsequent development of several chronic health conditions, including pelvic pain. Endometriosis is a chronic disease characterized by the growth of endometrial-lik…
In conclusion, we report here - in what is to our knowledge the first time - the prevalence rate of pelvic pain in trans adolescents on gender-affirming testosterone treatment, and observe that a quarter of them described pelvic pain. Limit…