Chronic Pelvic Pain

Andrea J. Rapin, Melinda Morgan
In: Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health · 2002 · pp. 217–229 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0689-8_12 · W4240961322
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Chronic pelvic pain in women is often poorly understood, leading to inadequate medical care and significant psychosocial sequelae for patients and providers.

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This chapter discusses chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women in a gendered social context, focusing on how pelvic/perineal pain is often inadequately investigated and how etiology is frequently unidentifiable despite symptoms. It outlines how CPP is associated with reduced social support, financial hardship and insurance loss from impaired occupational functioning, and downstream effects such as decreased physical activity, impaired social relations, altered family roles, depression, and vegetative dysregulation (sleep and appetite). A major limitation is that the discussion emphasizes broad psychosocial and care-encounter factors without presenting new empirical data within the chapter itself. Relevance to endometriosis: endometriosis is not explicitly discussed in the provided text of this chapter, though it is included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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