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PelvicSense

Your Way out of Chronic Pelvic Pain

By Evelyn Hecht Master Clinician of Pelvic Physiotherapy, Certified Chronic Pain Rehab Practitioner What causes chronic pain/distress? If you’ve ruled out a major medical cause(s) and test results are normal, why do you feel ongoing pain or related pelvic distress symptoms? The main reason is the nervous and immune systems have become too sensitive, and the brain behaves like a hyper-vigilant helicopter parent. Scientists call this ‘central sensitization.’ Our nervous …

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Taking a Biopsychosocial Approach: Does it Matter?

By Carolyn Vandyken Pelvic PT, Educator, Author There are two camps in treating pain: Tissue-based Camp of Treatment   Providers treat the tissues alone believing that there must be something bio-medically wrong with the tissues; if they can only mobilize, zap or anesthetize the right tissues, they will be able to change the pain. When the right tissues cannot be found to achieve this goal, these practitioners then medicate people …

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