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Invest Medicoquir 2012; 4 (1)

Physiotherapy in chronic pelvic pain

Martinez PR, Martínez TJC, Rodríguez AEM, García DJÁ, Díaz AD, Abreu PY

Language: Spanish
References: 26
Page: 20-30
PDF size: 141.71 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction. The chronic pelvic pain is a complex condition, it is not a diagnosis but a description of severe pain menstrual, able to cause functional discapacity, more frequent in medium wo men of ages, of diverse etiologic; difficult diagnosis, and can go with other affections in the region. Methods. Was carried out an intervention study, cuasiexperimental, to evaluate the answer to the treatment of the physiotherapy using physical agents lay local magnetic field and currents of low frequency (analgesic TENS) and stimulation of the pelvic floor, for the relief or the cure of the chronic pelvic pain in patients that went to the consultation of dysfunction of the pelvic floor of the Surgical Medical Center of investigations. The evaluation was carried out according to subjective references from the pain when concluding the treatment. It was considered cured: asymptomatic when concluding treatment, better: decrease of intensity of the pain y/o ti me of duration of the treatment, equally: I don't change in the pain sensation. Results. Of the total of patient of both sexes evaluated in consultation of dysfunction of the pelvic floor (351), 73 suffered chronic pelvic pains, 57 were women (78%), and the age average was of 47.3 ± 4, 5 years. In both sexes the alone pelvic pain prevailed (60, 2%), this percent was superior in the masculine sex when comparing it respectively with the feminine sex, 93, 7% and 50, 9%. (p=0,002). Of the total of patient, 57, 5% of the patients evolved satisfactorily, 56, 8% in the patients with alone pelvic pain and 58, 6% in the group of patient with associate pathologies. (p=0, 6939). Conclusions. The patients’ treaties evolved toward the improvement or the cure, without wor sening in any case.


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