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In my 25 years as a pelvic physical therapist, I witnessed more women patients with chronic pelvic pain often presenting as chronic pelvic pain syndrome achieve their goals with minimal, manageable, or no pain. The game changer has been targeting the central nervous system as a driver for CPP throug...

Key Takeaways

• Gentle, slow-paced movement, especially when done with a calm and confident mindset, can help reduce pelvic pain.
• Breathing techniques and slowly increasing your movement can help retrain your nervous system to feel safe.
• Pelvic pain often causes muscles to tighten up, but gentle
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Several studies have suggested that the analgesic effect of music (or music-induced analgesia) may be secondary to cognitive and emotional effects that arise from listening to music: 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚-𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 (Mitchell et al., 2...

Women with chronic pain have experienced being gaslit by some in the medical system. A tragedy as they flounder, feel hopeless, and spiral further into biopsychosocial distress.

A @nytimes article by @susanmasonburton highlighted the plight of women who feel their pain is being ignored or dismissed. ...