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Article: Chronic pelvic pain: Part II management with natural medicine.(Women's Health Update)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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In Part I of this article, I addressed the gynecologic and nongynecologic disorders associated with chronic pelvic pain. This included defining chronic pelvic pain and its incidence and offering a long listing of chronic pelvic pain causes, risk factors associated with chronic pelvic pain, and diagnostic foundations for establishing adequate evaluation. In part II, I will discuss mostly herbal/nutritional treatments for the selected conditions of endometriosis and interstitial cystitis. (A complete article on menstrual cramps appears in Townsend Letter, October 2006;279.)
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Even though my focus here is herbal and nutritional ...