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One in six women has chronic pelvic pain, substantially affectingevery aspect of millions of women's personal, family, sexual,social, and work lives. Indeed, chronic pelvic pain often becomesso integrated into daily life that its cause cannot be separatedfrom its effects, one problem becoming superimposed on and thenwoven into another, so that recognition, diagnosis, and treatmentbecome almost infinitely complex. As a result, this most challengingof clinical problems is often ignored, misdiagnosed, and mistreated,leading to frustration on the part of both the care giver andthe patient. The most common conclusion of the search for . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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