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DESCRIPTION:
Chronic pelvic pain is most common, but not exclusively limited to, women. Married women in their early thirties tend to have higher rates of chronic pelvic pain than single or divorced women. It may originate in pelvic or extrapelvic organs, or it may be secondary to a systemic disease. Sometimes modern medical doctors can not find a cause for the pain.
How does pelvic pain develop?
Pelvic pain can be broken down into three main causes: pregnancy causes, gynecologic causes and miscellaneous causes. Both men and women can suffer from disorders in the miscellaneous category, which include appendicitis, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, mesenteric adenitits, urinary tract infection, nephrolithiasis, constipation or trauma to either the bowel or bladder. Pregnancy causes include disorders such as an ectopic pregnancy, a miscarriage, preterm labor, a ruptured corpus luteum cyst, abruption of the placenta, or a uterine rupture. Gynecological causes include mittelschmerz, an ovarian cyst, ovarian torsion, acute pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, primary dysmenorrhea or a pelvic neoplasm.
While many of the above conditions usually respond to treatment, if pelvic pain lingers and no known source is found, injured, loose or weak ligaments may be the cause. The most commonly affected areas are the ligaments around the sacrococcygeal junction, as well as the iliolumbar ligament. Referred pain, which occurs when a ligament injury or weakness in one part of the body causes pain in another part, may also be involved.
What are the symptoms of pelvic pain?
Pelvic pain is a pain described to be at the lower abdomen and pelvis, and may be intermittent or recurrent, or constant and severe. If the pain last longer than six months it is defined as chronic, and may be accompanied by sleeping difficulties, lack of energy and depression.
Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of pelvic pain, but they do not address the root of the problem. By strengthening structural weaknesses in the body, as natural medicine treatments like Prolotherapy do, pelvic pain may be alleviated permanently.
Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat pelvic pain.
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