Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Pelvic Pain
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Pain is unwanted, is unfortunately common, and remains essential for survival (i.e., evading danger) and facilitating medical diagnoses. This complex amalgamation of sensation, emotions, and thoughts manifests itself as pain behavior. Pain is a motivating factor for physician consultations1 and for emergency department visits and is regarded as a cause of almost one-third of primary care utililization.2 Pain has been defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”3
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Chronic pelvic pain.
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