Katarzyna Placek

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Female-specific pain conditions such as dysmenorrhoea, endometriosis, and pain associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause are highly prevalent and frequently impair quality of life. Superficial heat thera…

Aim: The purpose of this study is to present physiotherapy and balneotherapy as an adjunct to treatment in reducing pain in women with endometriosis. Accordingly, databases were searched to find the most effective forms of physiotherapy for…

Feeling pain means feeling oneself, as the body feels discomfort as a kind of "disturbance experi-ence". Endometriosis is a disease in which the predominant symptom is pain felt by women pri-marily within the pelvis, but also outs…

Endometriosis is a disease whose underlying cause is the growth of the endometrium outside the uterine cavity. The disease is characterised by unpleasant pain in the pelvic region, irrespective of the phase of the woman's cycle. Physiothera…