Denise Jagroo
Veterans Hospital, USA
Title: Drama queen? or Central sensitization? : Understanding pain sensitivity and its effects on the pelvic floor
Biography
Biography: Denise Jagroo
Abstract
Patients can sometimes develop multiple chronic pain and chronic pelvic pain syndromes. This can be due to changes that occur in the central nervous system that allow for heightened sensitivity to nerve stimulation. Patients with visceral pain syndromes, such as painful bladder syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome, demonstrate influences of central sensitization. The development of several different pelvic pain conditions, such as these, can exist due to ‘neural cross talk’. This neural wind up explains the interface and interaction of chronic pelvic pain conditions. The results of these conditions are visceral pain, muscular instability and overactive pelvic floor muscles. Learn about these processes and how to manage/treat the patients who present with overactive pelvic floor syndrome and understand the neural process of central sensitization; learn about how conditions involving pelvic organs can increase central sensitization effects; learn how visceral pain and the viscera-muscular reflex can lead to muscular instability; and learn how to manage and treat patients with central sensitization and overactive pelvic floor syndrome with this presentation.