Rehabilitation of the Pelvis and Pelvic Floor

In: Urogenital Pain · 2017 · pp. 143–156 · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45794-9_9 · W2604699863
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This paper reviews chronic pelvic pain, its involvement of multiple systems, and treatment options including physical modalities, medications, psychotherapy, and interventional procedures.

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This chapter reviews chronic pelvic pain (CPP), including its multifactorial causes across urogenital, gynecological, musculoskeletal, and gastroenterologic systems, and discusses evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment options. It summarizes the use of physical modalities, medications, psychotherapy, and alternative medicine for both specific etiologies and general symptom relief, and it describes common interventional approaches such as superior and inferior hypogastric plexus blocks and the ganglion impar block, noting that multidisciplinary plans can yield better results. A key limitation is that the chapter is narrative/synthesis-focused rather than presenting original trial data, and it does not provide a single standardized treatment protocol. This paper does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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