Pelvic Pain - Male and Female course
This session describes the nature of male and female pelvic pain, the clinical model for its assessment and treatment and also presents a series of cases of patients with pelvic pain.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Describe the impact of chronic pelvic pain
- Explain how to take a history and examine a patient with chronic pelvic pain
- List the common treatment modalities in chronic pelvic pain
- Describe how some typical cases of common pelvic pain are managed
There may also be a considerable overlap between different pelvic pain conditions, and most pelvic pain conditions involve a disturbance of urinary, bowel and sexual function.
Therefore, it is important for healthcare professionals to have a knowledge of how chronic pelvic pain affects men and women, and the treatment options that are available.
Natasha Curran is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College London (UCL) Hospitals. She is the lead for Abdomino-pelvic pain with extensive experience in managing patients with persistent pain of visceral, pelvic and urogenital origin. She leads a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists in this field with interdisciplinary links with gynaecologists, urologists, gastroenterologists and other related professionals.
Natasha has authored many papers and chapters on the management of male and female pelvic pain and is an invited speaker at international meetings as well as advising patient support groups.
Natasha studied Medicine at the University of Liverpool, qualifying with Honours and a BSc in 1998. She trained in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine at University College Hospitals, The Royal Marsden and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. Natasha was previously the Education and Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Anaesthesia.
Her other key interests are in simulation-based training and medical leadership in the NHS.
Natasha Curran is a content author with the e-LA project.
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