The Role of Rehabilitation Medicine in Chronic Pelvic Pain
It was my honor to interview Dr. Allyson Shrikhande, MD, founder of Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine about the role of rehabilitation medicine in chronic pelvic pain. Rehabilitation medicine includes the tools of pain and nervous system modulation medications, specific...
Using an Elimination Diet to Relieve Vulvodynia and IBS
Functional Nutrition Treatment Options for Vulvodynia and IBS When the pain of vulvodynia hits – the painful sex, the pain with wearing tight pants, the pain with just sitting through a movie! – you just want it gone. Fortunately, by taking an integrative...
The Connection Between SIBO and Bladder Pain (and how to relieve both)
One of the reasons that relieving pelvic pain is so challenging is that pain in different systems within the pelvis can overlap. For example, in rats where experimental colitis (colon irritation) was induced, many of the rats also experienced bladder and urethral...