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In my 25 years as a pelvic physical therapist, I witnessed more women patients with chronic pelvic pain achieve their goals with minimal, manageable, or no pain in a shorter time frame in the last half of my career compared to the first half. The game changer is targeting the central nervous system ...

Studies show that exercise helps women lower persistent pelvic pain. 👇🏼

The article: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890212/ states: Bergström et al), found that physical exercise has beneficial effects on relaxing the muscles of patients’ suffering from endometriosis which helps to break their...

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. ...