The team recognises that many people living with pelvic pain have resorted to consulting Dr Google. While the internet can be a great resource there can also be pitfalls. So we have collected together some of our favourite resources and sites.
APPs
Pelvic care for the mind and body
WEBSITES
Pain Guide
Retrain Pain
Tame the Beast
Flippin Pain
Period Pain and why that happens (a series of 5 great blogs, 1 2 3 4 5)
Pelvic pain foundation of Australia
What is pelvic pain? (Pelvic pain network)
Pain revolution
Live well with pain
Pelvic floor health (for those who live with pelvic floor pain, read the section “high tone pelvic floor dysfunction”)
Institute for Chronic Pain – Chronic abdominal pain
Chronic pain won’t stop me!
How to eat to beat inflammation
COPCs (Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions)
Pain Concern
Guide to physiotherapy for pelvic pain
VIDEOS
Periods and period pain
Professor Sonia Grover talking all things menstruation.
Endometriosis and pelvic pain
Pelvic Pain Eduction Programme (PPEP)
Why and how do we feel pain?
Why does pain become chronic?
What is Chronic Pelvic Pain?
How is Chronic Pelvic Pain Managed?
What is Dysmenorrhea?
What is Vulvodynia and How is it Treated?
Pelvic pain in males
The brain, immune system, and chronic pain
How chronic pain is like falling in love
PODCASTS
Endometriosis and the Science of Pelvic Pain
How to heal chronic pain
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND ARTICLES
A common treatment for endometriosis could actually be making things worse
Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, A Review
Management of Persistent Pelvic Pain in Girls and Women
Multidisciplinary Team Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain
To ‘scope or not to ‘scope, that is the question
Surgical removal of superficial peritoneal endometriosis for managing women with chronic pelvic pain: time for a rethink?
Laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis
Repeated laparoscopies for pelvic pain: doing the same thing over and expecting a different outcome?
The future of diagnostic laparoscopy – Cons
The cost of translational gaps for people with pelvic pain
Gabapentin for the treatment of pelvic pain
An Aotearoa New Zealand survey of the impact of endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain
Clinical profiling of specific diagnostic subgroups of women with chronic pelvic pain
Nociplastic pain and central sensitization in patients with chronic pain conditions: a terminology update for clinicians
How to help people living with chronic pain to change their pain experience. A patient perspective