Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes

Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

 
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We offer treatment for female muscle-based pelvic pain syndromes that has helped reduce symptoms in 82% of our male and female patients.

In the latest Stanford study, the global response assessment revealed that 82% of our patients reported improvement (59% marked/moderate, 23% slight). Click to read published research.
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Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

The most common condition we treat in women is what is called interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome.  The existence of this condition and the treatment of it is controversial and we discuss our viewpoint and treatment in the section on interstitial cystitis within this website on treatment.

In the latest review and analysis of our data in the last 400 patients we have treated, reduction in symptoms comparing men and women is essentially identical, The Wise-Anderson Protocol, popularly known as the Stanford Protocol has been able to help a significant number of women with muscle related pelvic pain. We regularly see and treat women who have been diagnosed with conditions called by various names as interstitial cystitis, urethral syndrome, painful bladder syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction, levator ani syndrome, pelvic floor myalgia, dyspareunia, and chronic pelvic pain among other diagnoses. It is our view that most of these conditions are in some way related to chronic tension or spasm in the muscles of the pelvic basin and fed by anxiety, protective guarding and the habitual tendency to tighten the pelvic muscles. Muscle based pelvic pain in women is essentially the same phenomena in women that we treat in the men.

Some women with muscle related pelvic pain say that they don’t actually feel pain but some variation of discomfort, aching, burning, fullness, squeezing, tightness, sharp or dull sensation.  Typical symptoms associated with  female pelvic pain include one or more of the following:

  • vaginal pain
  • rectal pain
  • pain around or above the pubic bone
  • discomfort with sitting
  • discomfort or pain with intercourse or sexual activity
  • exacerbation of pelvic pain related to menstruation
  • exacerbation of symptoms with stress and anxiety
  • urinary frequency
  • urinary urgency or hesitancy
  • pain during or after urination
  • pain during or after bowel movements
  • pain related to childbirth