Complementary and Alternative Medications for Chronic Pelvic Pain.
Author: Leong FC.
Affiliation:
Obstetrics Gynecology and Women's Health, Saint Louis University, 6420 Clayton Road, St Louis, MO 63117, USA. Electronic address: leongfc@slu.edu.
Conference/Journal: Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am.
Date published: 2014 Sep
Other:
Volume ID: 41 , Issue ID: 3 , Pages: 503-510 , Special Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.ogc.2014.05.001 , Word Count: 114
Chronic pelvic pain is common, but rarely cured, thus patients seek both second opinions and alternative means of controlling their pain. Complementary and alternative medicine accounts for 11.2% of out-of-pocket medical expenditures for adults for all conditions in the United States. Although there are many treatments, rigorous testing and well-done randomized studies are lacking. Dietary changes and physical modalities such as physical therapy have often been included in the category of alternative medicine, but their use is now considered mainstream. This article concentrates on other sources of alternative and complementary medicine, such as dietary supplementation and acupuncture.
Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:
Alternative medicine; Chronic pelvic pain; Complementary medicine; Endometriosis; Interstitial cystitis
PMID: 25155128
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