{"product_id":"pelvic-pain-and-the-nervous-system-a-research-based-explanation-of-why-it-hurts-9798197279491","title":"Pelvic Pain and the Nervous System: A Research-Based Explanation of Why It Hurts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): R. V. Langford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women's Health - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour pelvic pain is real, even when every scan comes back normal. This book explains what your nervous system is actually doing, and why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you live with chronic pelvic pain, you have probably been examined, scanned, referred, and sent away. You may have been told the imaging is clear, the prostate is fine, the surgery should have worked, or that the pain is anxiety. You are intelligent, you know your own body, and you have been waiting for an explanation that takes both seriously. This book is that explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for adults whose pelvic pain has continued after structural treatment, \u003ci\u003ePelvic Pain and the Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e brings the research on central sensitisation, pelvic neuroanatomy, and the autonomic nervous system into clear, accessible language. It speaks to women whose endometriosis pain returned after excision, women with interstitial cystitis, bladder pain syndrome, or vulvodynia, men with chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome, and anyone whose pelvic floor symptoms have not resolved with mechanical treatment alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you will take from this book: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear, research-grounded explanation of why the pelvis is one of the most neurologically complex regions in the body, and why pain there behaves differently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy imaging is so often normal in exactly the patients whose pain is most severe, and why that is not evidence that nothing is wrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the major pelvic pain conditions share the same underlying nervous system mechanisms, even when they carry different diagnostic labels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow trauma, hormones, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause reshape pelvic pain across a lifetime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the current evidence says about pelvic floor physical therapy, medication, nerve blocks, psychological approaches, and emerging treatments, including where each works and where it does not\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractical guidance for the bladder, bowel, intimacy, and daily-life symptoms that often wear patients down as much as the pain itself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a protocol book that treats the pelvis as a muscle to be fixed, and it is not an academic text written for clinicians. It is the conversation you should have had the moment a doctor first said the cause could not be found: precise, validating, scientifically honest about what is established and what is still emerging, and unambiguously on your side. Each chapter ends with key insights, questions to reflect on, concrete actions for the week ahead, and suggestions for further reading drawn from peer-reviewed research and clinical guidelines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have spent years being dismissed, this book gives you the science, the language, and the ground to stand on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891714408599,"sku":"9798197279491","price":1638.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197279491.webp?v=1781184582","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pelvic-pain-and-the-nervous-system-a-research-based-explanation-of-why-it-hurts-9798197279491","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}