Foster DC

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 1981-2026

Study types

  • article 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
2026
The journal of pain ·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105584

Vulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown etiology, lasting 3 months or longer, affects 7% of American women, and has no consistently effective treatment. We aimed to test the efficacy of acupuncture on vulvar pain and dyspareunia and explore the …

2010
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e3181e9e0ab

ObjectiveTo estimate the efficacy of common treatments for vulvodynia: topical lidocaine monotherapy, oral desipramine monotherapy, and lidocaine-desipramine combined therapy.MethodsA 12-week randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled t…

2009
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e31819bda7c

ObjectiveA standardized tampon insertion and removal test, the Tampon Test provides an alternative to sexual intercourse pain as an outcome measure for vulvodynia research. We report upon the reliability, validity, and responsiveness to cha…

article 2005
The Journal of reproductive medicine

OBJECTIVE: To examine the roles of physical and sexual abuse in women with chronic pelvic pain using multi-dimensional pain assessment and to compare the chronic pelvic pain experiences of women with physical abuse to those of women with se…

article 1981
Obstetrics and gynecology