Angela N. Pierce

Chronic pelvic pain is currently estimated to impact 9.2 million women in the United States. As many as half of these women will have comorbid conditions, such as chronic pain in multiple pelvic organs, mood disorder, and/or somatic functio…

Early life stress can permanently alter functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which regulates the stress response and influences the perception of pain. Chronic pelvic pain patients commonly report having experienced…