Marie L Suarez

ORCID: 0000-0001-9070-2740 · 4 papers in corpus
rct 2026
Long-lasting effect of penetrating acupuncture among responders: Double-blind RCT of acupuncture for vulvodynia
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 …

other 2022
Protocol for double-blind RCT of acupuncture for vulvodynia
Contemporary clinical trials communications ·doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2022.101029

BACKGROUND: Vulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown origin lasting at least 3 months, affects 7% of American women. Dyspareunia, its frequent companion, renders sexual intercourse virtually impossible. Although few therapies are efficacious and …

observational 2021
High rate of dyspareunia and probable vulvodynia in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders: An online survey
American journal of medical genetics. Part C, Seminars in medical genetics ·doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.31939

Vulvodynia is debilitating vulvar pain accompanied by dyspareunia (pain with sexual intercourse). Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) may represent a predisposing factor for vulvodynia given a high rate …

observational 2019
Sensory pain characteristics of vulvodynia and their association with nociceptive and neuropathic pain: an online survey pilot study
Pain reports ·doi:10.1097/pr9.0000000000000713

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate self-reported sensory pain scores of women with generalized vulvodynia (GV) and provoked vestibulodynia (PVD), characterize pain phenotypes, and assess feasibility of using the Internet for recruitment and data colle…