The development and delivery of a female chronic pelvic pain management programme: a specialised interdisciplinary approach
| Autor: | Shaireen Aleem, Natalie Lane, Rajiv Chawla, Hannah Twiddy, Selina Johnson, Lucinda Mawdsley, Alison Bradshaw |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Occupational therapy
medicine.medical_specialty Self-management business.industry Pelvic pain Pain medicine Alternative medicine Chronic pain Context (language use) Original Articles medicine.disease Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Female chronic pelvic pain medicine Physical therapy medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | British journal of pain. 9(4) |
| ISSN: | 2049-4637 |
| Popis: | Context/Background: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a physically and psychologically debilitating condition. European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines (2013) and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) guidelines (2012) place strong emphasis upon multi-speciality assessment and liaison, as well as interdisciplinary assessment and intervention in reference to the management of CPP. Objectives: The aim was to introduce and describe the development and delivery of an interdisciplinary pain management programme (PMP), at a Specialised Pain Management Centre in Liverpool, United Kingdom, for women diagnosed with CPP. Method: The format and content of the CPP PMP at The Walton Centre, Liverpool, is described and the preliminary results from the CPP PMP are presented. Results: Preliminary data suggest that outcomes on the specialised CPP PMP indicate that patients are able to make clinically important change across a range of outcome measures. Moreover, these results compare favourably to the established PMP for generalised chronic pain when comparing clinically significant outcomes with the Walton Centre’s (a tertiary-level pain management centre) 2013 PMP Audit document. Patients attending the CPP PMP positively appraised the PMP and felt it was useful and supportive to be in a group dedicated to CPP. Conclusions: This article presents some preliminary results that suggest there is value in delivering a specialised multidisciplinary PMP for this group. There is a clear need for further clinical research into the effectiveness of similar interventions for CPP, including the early identification of those CPP patients who may benefit from both multi-specialty and interdisciplinary management. |
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