Description: KevMed - Living beyond the pain - Innovative approaches to pelvic pain, interstitial cystitis, IBS
ard (222) cpp (204) endometriosis (158) interstitial cystitis (29) adhesions (13) chronic pelvic pain (12) capps (10) adhesion related disorder (1) complex abdomino-pelvic and pain syndrome (1) complex abdominal and pelvic pain syndrome (1)
Over 15 million patients in the USA suffer from a number of overlapping disorders that include pelvic pain, abdominal pain, Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD), bowel obstruction, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis (IC), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
vulvodynia, dyspareunia (painful intercourse), dyschezia (painful defecation), adhesions, sacroiliac joint pain, pudendal neuralgia and pelvic floor dysfunction.
Numerous patients undergo hysterectomy in an effort to alleviate their pain, only to discover that the procedure worsens their condition. In extreme cases, patients will also report fibromyalgia, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders (TMD) and reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).