- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors list
- Chapter 1 Establishing and developing a pelvic floor service: the multidisciplinary team and the approach to patient assessment
- Chapter 2 Radiological workup
- Chapter 3 Anorectal physiology
- Chapter 4 Faecal incontinence: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 5 Obstructed defaecation: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 6 Chronic anorectal pain: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 7 Conservative treatment of pelvic floor disorders
- Chapter 8 Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Chapter 9 Internal rectal prolapse
- Chapter 10 Anismus
- Chapter 11 Rectocele
- Chapter 12 Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS)
- Chapter 13 Slow transit constipation
- Chapter 14 Perineoproctology (fissures and haemorrhoids)
- Chapter 15 Pudendal pain syndrome
- Chapter 16 Obstetric sphincter injury
- Chapter 17 Rectal sensory dysfunction
- Chapter 18 Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (with posterior colporraphy and vaginal sacrocolpopexy)
- Chapter 19 STARR and Transtar
- Chapter 20 Complete pelvic floor ultrasound
- Chapter 21 Sacral neuromodulation
- Chapter 22 Anal bulking
- Chapter 23 Anterior sphincter repair
- Chapter 24 Neosphincters and artificial sphincters for treating faecal incontinence
- Index
(p. 153) Pudendal pain syndrome
- Chapter:
- (p. 153) Pudendal pain syndrome
- Author(s):
Andrew Paul Baranowski
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199579624.003.0015
Chapter 15 discusses pudendal pain syndrome, which classifies conditions associated with pain perceived within the pelvis and its adjacent areas, and that it is complex and controversial. Pain associated with peripheral nerve injury is well described and many of the mechanisms are clearly understood. When an obvious injury involves the pudendal nerve and is associated with pain then the diagnosis of pudendal neuralgia may be made. Following nerve injury, secondary changes within the central nervous system may occur and as a result areas beyond the classical areas associated with the pudendal nerve may be symptomatic and this may confuse the diagnosis. The term ‘pudendal pain syndrome’ is used when there is no obvious injury/disease process to account for the pain.
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors list
- Chapter 1 Establishing and developing a pelvic floor service: the multidisciplinary team and the approach to patient assessment
- Chapter 2 Radiological workup
- Chapter 3 Anorectal physiology
- Chapter 4 Faecal incontinence: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 5 Obstructed defaecation: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 6 Chronic anorectal pain: a pathophysiological approach
- Chapter 7 Conservative treatment of pelvic floor disorders
- Chapter 8 Three compartments–working with a multidisciplinary team
- Chapter 9 Internal rectal prolapse
- Chapter 10 Anismus
- Chapter 11 Rectocele
- Chapter 12 Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS)
- Chapter 13 Slow transit constipation
- Chapter 14 Perineoproctology (fissures and haemorrhoids)
- Chapter 15 Pudendal pain syndrome
- Chapter 16 Obstetric sphincter injury
- Chapter 17 Rectal sensory dysfunction
- Chapter 18 Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (with posterior colporraphy and vaginal sacrocolpopexy)
- Chapter 19 STARR and Transtar
- Chapter 20 Complete pelvic floor ultrasound
- Chapter 21 Sacral neuromodulation
- Chapter 22 Anal bulking
- Chapter 23 Anterior sphincter repair
- Chapter 24 Neosphincters and artificial sphincters for treating faecal incontinence
- Index