ISSWSH Archives | Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center

Wait there’s a (secret) society for that?

In Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy by Emily Tran / September 20, 2018

In the age of social media and WebMD, often times I will have a patient who has gained information from all sorts of sources all over the internet. It takes a lot of effort to weed through the information that the patient has “learned” and separate fact from fiction. One of the best and most […]

What is Vulvodynia? The International Consensus Conference on Vulvodynia Nomenclature

In Female Pelvic Pain by Stephanie Prendergast / April 30, 2015

By Stephanie Prendergast, PHRC Cofounder What is Vulvodynia? Is it a symptom, a disease, or a syndrome? What does the term ‘Vuvlodynia’ mean to people with vulvar pain, pelvic pain specialists, medical professionals, and the community in general? In a previous blog post I wrote about how in the pelvic pain world, diagnosis does not dictate treatment. […]