Pelvic pain

- Frontmatter - Contents - List of contributors - Preface - Psychology, health and illness - Medical topics - Abortion - Accidents and unintentional injuries - Acne - Alcohol abuse - Allergies to drugs - Allergies to food - Allergies: general - Amnesia - Amputation and phantom limb pain - Anaesthesia and psychology - Antenatal care - Aphasia recovery, treatment and psychosocial adjustment - Asthma - Back pain - Blindness and visual disability - Blood donation - Breastfeeding - Burn injuries: psychological and social aspects - Cancer: breast - Cancers of the digestive tract - Cancer: general - Cancer: gynaecologic - Cancer: head and neck - Cancer: Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - Cancer: leukaemia - Cancer: lung - Cancer: prostate - Cancer: skin - Carotid artery disease and treatment - Chemotherapy - Child abuse and neglect - Chromosomal abnormalities - Chronic fatigue syndrome - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): chronic bronchitis and emphysema - Cleft lip and palate - Cold, common - Complementary medicine - Contraception - Coronary heart disease: impact - Coronary heart disease: cardiac psychology - Coronary heart disease: heart failure - Coronary heart disease: rehabilitation - Coronary heart disease: surgery - Cystic fibrosis - Acquired hearing loss - Dementias - Diabetes mellitus - Domestic violence, intimate partner violence and wife battering - Drug dependency: benzodiazepines - Drug dependence: opiates and stimulants - Drugs: beta-blockers - Drugs: psychotropic medication - Dyslexia - Eating disorders - Eczema - Endocrine disorders - Enuresis - Epilepsy - Epstein–Barr virus infection - Facial disfigurement and dysmorphology - Fetal wellbeing: monitoring and assessment - Gastric and duodenal ulcers - Growth retardation - Haemophilia - Head injury - Headache and migraine - Herpes - HIV/AIDS - Hormone replacement therapy - Hospital acquired infection - Huntington's disease - Hyperactivity - Hypertension - Hyperthyroidism - Hyperventilation - Hysterectomy - Immunization - Incontinence - Infertility - Inflammatory bowel disease - Intensive care unit - Intimate examinations - Irritable bowel syndrome - Lymphoedema - Malaria - Mastalgia (breast pain) - Meningitis - Menopause and postmenopause - MMR vaccine - Motor neurone disease - Multiple sclerosis - Myasthenia gravis - Neurofibromatosis - Non-cardiac chest pain - Obesity - Oral care and hygiene - Osteoarthritis - Osteoporosis - Parkinson's disease - Pelvic pain - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Postnatal depression - Pregnancy and childbirth - Premature babies - Premenstrual syndrome - Psoriasis - Radiotherapy - Rape and sexual assault - Reconstructive and cosmetic surgery - Renal failure, dialysis and transplantation - Repetitive strain injury - Rheumatoid arthritis - Road traffic accidents: human factors - Screening: antenatal - Screening: cancer - Screening: cardiac - Screening: genetic - Self-examination: breasts, testicles - Sexual dysfunction - Sexually transmitted infections - Sickle cell disease - Skin disorders - Sleep apnoea - Sleep disorders - Spina bifida - Spinal cord injury - Sterilization and vasectomy - Stroke - Stuttering - Suicide - Tinnitus - Tobacco use - Toxins: environmental - Transplantation - Urinary tract symptoms - Vertigo and dizziness - Vision disorders - Voice disorders - Volatile substance abuse - Vomiting and nausea - Index - References from Medical topics Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014 Book contents - Frontmatter - Contents - List of contributors - Preface - Psychology, health and illness - Medical topics - Abortion - Accidents and unintentional injuries - Acne - Alcohol abuse - Allergies to drugs - Allergies to food - Allergies: general - Amnesia - Amputation and phantom limb pain - Anaesthesia and psychology - Antenatal care - Aphasia recovery, treatment and psychosocial adjustment - Asthma - Back pain - Blindness and visual disability - Blood donation - Breastfeeding - Burn injuries: psychological and social aspects - Cancer: breast - Cancers of the digestive tract - Cancer: general - Cancer: gynaecologic - Cancer: head and neck - Cancer: Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - Cancer: leukaemia - Cancer: lung - Cancer: prostate - Cancer: skin - Carotid artery disease and treatment - Chemotherapy - Child abuse and neglect - Chromosomal abnormalities - Chronic fatigue syndrome - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): chronic bronchitis and emphysema - Cleft lip and palate - Cold, common - Complementary medicine - Contraception - Coronary heart disease: impact - Coronary heart disease: cardiac psychology - Coronary heart disease: heart failure - Coronary heart disease: rehabilitation - Coronary heart disease: surgery - Cystic fibrosis - Acquired hearing loss - Dementias - Diabetes mellitus - Domestic violence, intimate partner violence and wife battering - Drug dependency: benzodiazepines - Drug dependence: opiates and stimulants - Drugs: beta-blockers - Drugs: psychotropic medication - Dyslexia - Eating disorders - Eczema - Endocrine disorders - Enuresis - Epilepsy - Epstein–Barr virus infection - Facial disfigurement and dysmorphology - Fetal wellbeing: monitoring and assessment - Gastric and duodenal ulcers - Growth retardation - Haemophilia - Head injury - Headache and migraine - Herpes - HIV/AIDS - Hormone replacement therapy - Hospital acquired infection - Huntington's disease - Hyperactivity - Hypertension - Hyperthyroidism - Hyperventilation - Hysterectomy - Immunization - Incontinence - Infertility - Inflammatory bowel disease - Intensive care unit - Intimate examinations - Irritable bowel syndrome - Lymphoedema - Malaria - Mastalgia (breast pain) - Meningitis - Menopause and postmenopause - MMR vaccine - Motor neurone disease - Multiple sclerosis - Myasthenia gravis - Neurofibromatosis - Non-cardiac chest pain - Obesity - Oral care and hygiene - Osteoarthritis - Osteoporosis - Parkinson's disease - Pelvic pain - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Postnatal depression - Pregnancy and childbirth - Premature babies - Premenstrual syndrome - Psoriasis - Radiotherapy - Rape and sexual assault - Reconstructive and cosmetic surgery - Renal failure, dialysis and transplantation - Repetitive strain injury - Rheumatoid arthritis - Road traffic accidents: human factors - Screening: antenatal - Screening: cancer - Screening: cardiac - Screening: genetic - Self-examination: breasts, testicles - Sexual dysfunction - Sexually transmitted infections - Sickle cell disease - Skin disorders - Sleep apnoea - Sleep disorders - Spina bifida - Spinal cord injury - Sterilization and vasectomy - Stroke - Stuttering - Suicide - Tinnitus - Tobacco use - Toxins: environmental - Transplantation - Urinary tract symptoms - Vertigo and dizziness - Vision disorders - Voice disorders - Volatile substance abuse - Vomiting and nausea - Index - References Introduction Because of the dearth of research examining the involvement of psychosocial factors in acute pelvic pain, this chapter focuses on chronic pain in the pelvic region, excluding abdominal pain. Although remarkably common in the female population, chronic pelvic pain (CPP) constitutes a broad and poorly-defined diagnostic category. Indeed, a recent survey of published studies noted that over 90% of investigators did not specify anatomical locations of pain beyond noting that it was ‘in the pelvic region’, and approximately three-quarters of published CPP studies included no information on whether physical pathology was present (Williams et al., 2004). The most commonly utilized definition of CPP; ‘recurrent or constant pain in the lower abdominal region that has lasted for at least 6 months’, ignores aetiology (Zondervan & Barlow, 2000). The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has also promulgated a definition for CPP without obvious pathology, but such terms have been criticized for drawing an artificial distinction between organic and non-organic pain (Grace, 2000). Current conceptualizations of pain generally utilize the IASP's definition of pain as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’ (International Association for the Study of Pain, 1979). This inclusion of affect in the definition of pain has largely abolished old distinctions between ‘organic’ and ‘functional’ pain. - Type - Chapter - Information - Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine , pp. 811 - 814Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007 American College of Gynaecologists (ACOG) (2004). Practice Bulletin No. 51. Chronic pelvic pain. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 103, 589–605. 2001). A randomized comparison of group cognitive-behavioral therapy, surface electromyographic biofeedback, and vestibulectomy in the treatment of dyspareunia resulting from vulvar vestibulitis. Pain, 91, 297–306.Google Scholar , , et al. (2003). 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