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Surgery is not always necessary but can be helpful in some instances. Here’s what the evidence says and what to consider before you decide.
For the first time, research has put a dollar figure on the medical and economic toll of these relatively common conditions in New Zealand.
Clinicians can’t predict who does and doesn’t have endometriosis from symptoms alone.
The Essure device was implanted into women’s fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy. It left some women with chronic pelvic pain that took a hysterectomy to resolve.
Our research showed that the mechanisms causing chronic pelvic pain vary from person to person.
For some women with endometriosis, surgery and medication just aren’t cutting it to alleviate their pain and other symptoms. One in ten turn to cannabis.
Women with endometriosis pay an average of $1,200 in out-of-pocket health costs a year. When you add lost wages and productivity, the costs add up to $30,000 per sufferer every year.
A step-by- step coordinated physiotherapy plan is key for patients with disorders related to the pelvic floor.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Pain in Women Group, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Principal Health Economist, Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Pain Data Collection and Analysis, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow in Gynaecology, Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
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Associate Professor of Law, Bond University
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Research Co-Lead, Chronic Reproductive Health Conditions, Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University
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PhD Candidate, Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical Research Assistant, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Oncology, McMaster University
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Research Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Gynaecological Surgeon and Sonologist, McMaster University; Adelaide University