Chronic pelvic pain has suffered a painful history shadowed by sexual inequality. Once considered a psychiatric disorder and labeled as “hysteria”, which was eventually removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980. Chronic pelvic pain can affect both men and women with a prevalence of 22.8% in subjects between age 18-65 found in one Spanish study. Pain can develop from prior injury or surgery. It can be gender specific or organ specific and involve nociceptive, inflammatory, and neuropathic etiologies. This presentation will review the spectrum of care for diagnosing and treating pelvic pain with an emphasis on illustrating the latest neuromodulation techniques that have emerged as effective treatment options. The target audience will include physicians and advanced care providers who are involved in the care of chronic pelvic pain patients.
