#311 Chronic Pelvic Pain

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Education, Health & Fitness, Higher Education, Medicine, Science

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Pelvic pain is not just a gyn issue! As a PCP, you can feel confident doing an initial workup and starting treatment for pelvic pain. Dr. Lamvu shares a great framework to narrow down your diagnosis and provides amazing resources for those who work in an under-resourced center. We’ll walk you through what to focus on in the history, a trauma-informed physical exam, and the first-line treatments. Feel confident with your ability to help your chronic pelvic pain patients.

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Credits

Writers/Producer: Molly Heublein, MD
Infographic: Edison Jyang
Cover Art: Kate Grant, MBChB MRCGP DipGUMed
Hosts: Beth Garbitelli, Molly Heublein, MD
Reviewer: Emi Okamoto, MD
Executive Producer: Beth Garbitelli
Showrunner: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
Editor: Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
Guest: Georgine Lamvu, MD MPH

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Show Segments

Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
Guest introduction and recommendations
Picks of the Week
Case from Kashlak
Persistent Pelvic Pain Definitions
Differential diagnosis/organ system approach
History
Physical Exam
Trauma informed Care
First line Treatments
Resources for patient education and to build speciality team
Summary and take home points
Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey curbsiders, I wanted to remind you that we've just launched a brand new podcast called
0:05.6	Curbsiders Teach.
0:07.2	It has its own RSS feed and it's hosted by Curbsiders regular Dr. Molly Hoybine and New
0:13.2	Cumber, Dr. Ira Kriznaf Skaya.
0:16.4	They are fantastic clinician educators and they have brought us the Internal Medicine
0:21.0	Podcast for all things medical education.
0:23.4	They're going to be doing expert interviews each week in this mini-series that's going
0:27.4	to run for about three months.
0:29.3	We hope you'll enjoy it, so check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.2	That's Curbsiders Teach.
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0:55.8	and let's know when we're wrong.
0:56.8	Welcome back to the Curbsiders.
1:09.5	This is Dr. Matthew Wato, sadly without Dr. Paul Nelson Williams, but we have two great
1:16.1	hosts for tonight's episode, which is on Chronic Pelvic Pain, a topic that personally I knew
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