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- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- Subject
- Medicine & Public Health; Internal Medicine; Pain Medicine
- ISSN
- 1531-3433
- eISSN
- 1534-3081
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11916-011-0215-1
- pmid
- 21739128
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Patients presenting with chronic pelvic pain frequently complain of multiple symptoms that appear to involve more than one organ system, creating diagnostic confusion. The multisymptom presentation of chronic pelvic pain has been frequently described. This article describes four proposed explanations for the clinical observation of multisymptom presentations of patients with chronic pelvic pain. These include the concepts of viscerovisceral convergence; viscerosomatic convergence; hypertonicity of pelvic floor muscles creating visceral symptoms along with somatovisceral convergence; and central sensitization with expansion of receptive fields.
Journal
Current Pain and Headache Reports – Springer Journals
Published: Jul 8, 2011