professional Archives | Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center

New Classification System for Persistent Vulvar Pain

In Female Pelvic Pain by Stephanie Prendergast / October 1, 2015

By Stephanie Prendergast In a previous blog post I described my experience while participating in an International Nomenclature Consensus Conference. As you may recall, the motivation for a consensus meeting originated because there was “an unmet medical need for a comprehensive, evidence-based set of vulvovaginal pain diagnoses that […]

Pudendal Neuralgia Media Wrecking Ball: Why words matter

In pudendal neuralgia by Stephanie Prendergast / May 14, 2015

By Stephanie Prendergast, PHRC Cofounder Most people dealing with the symptoms of Pudendal Neuralgia (PN) will tell you reading about PN, mostly online, can be traumatizing. “Chronic” conditions often translate to gloomy situations for both patients and providers. In recent years, the knowledge of pain science and PN has advanced tremendously. In the medical community […]