You Need The Brain To Treat Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain is a special form of pain because it is related to private functions like peeing, pooping, and having sex. Pelvic pain is also nothing more than pain and needs to be treated like that. The brain is the organ that makes pain and should therefore be treated to get control over the pain.
Topics Covered: Chronic Pelvic Pain including
- * The functional aspects
- * The physical aspects
- * The role of the brain
- * Treatment algorithms
- * Self-management and relapse prevention
Supplemental Materials: European Association of Urology Guideline on Chronic Pelvic Pain. https://uroweb.org/guideline/chronic-pelvic-pain/
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About the Presenter
Bert Messelink, Urologist-Certified Sexologist
Bert is a urologist and from the start of his working life in urology, he was interested in functional problems. He put his energy into helping develop a multidisciplinary approach to pelvic floor problems. That started 25 years ago and it is great to see that this approach has become the golden standard. Later on, Bert met people dealing with pelvic pain and joined them in their activities. This has resulted in being the vice-chairman of the European Association of Urology guidelines on chronic pelvic pain. In his home country, Bert is chairman of the committee that wrote the first guideline on CPP. He is one of the editors of the book Abdominal and Pelvic Pain, based on the first World Congress on Abdominal and Pelvic Pain (2013). At the moment, Bert is still working as a urologist-sexologist and seeing many patients with pelvic pain and sexual problems in his multidisciplinary pelvic pain clinic.
