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Psychomotor Chronic Pelvic PainAka: Chronic Pain Syndrome from Pelvic Pain

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  1. Epidemiology
    1. Similar to other Chronic Pain patients in general
  2. Symptoms
    1. Major Depression
    2. Helpless and passive
    3. Vegetative Symptoms
      1. Insomnia
        1. Early awakening
        2. Inability to get back to sleep
      2. Diminished appetite
      3. Psychomotor retardation
      4. Withdrawn from Physical Activity
        1. Sports, housework, social, and sexual activity
    4. Emotional roles in family change
      1. Displaced from usual roles (e.g. child Discipline)
      2. Pain focused interactions
      3. Pain is a means of staying connected to family
    5. Preoccupied with pain and suffering
  3. Signs
    1. Pain is out of proportion to tissue damage
  4. Diagnostics: MMPI
    1. Anxiety
    2. Hypochondriasis
  5. Prognosis
    1. Little relief from conventional treatments

Chronic pelvic pain without obvious pathology (C0458112)

ConceptsSign or Symptom (T184)
EnglishChronic pelvic pain without obvious pathology
Spanishdolor pelviano cronico sin patologia evidente, dolor pelvico cronico sin patologia evidente
Parent ConceptsChronic pelvic pain of female (C0404484)
SourcesSCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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