Pelvic pain is a difficult and challenging medical condition for both patients and doctors. It can be debilitating for women that can begin as a teenager or a young adult and progress for years impacting every facet of their lives.

Similiarly, pelvic pain can be challenging for symptom to assess and manage for doctors as there are a multitude of causes that range from simple and straight forward to complex and chronic diseases such as endometriosis.

In this episode we discuss pelvic pain and endometriosis with two guests who are leaders in diagnosis, treatment and management.

Travis also references a previous episode that touched on this issue: The Tragedy Of The Wandering Womb.

Also, Associate Professor Susan Evans, promised to share a link to this paper (click to download): An Embodied Predictive Processing Theory of Pain Experience (NEI Ensemble Paper).

This is the story of pelvic pain and endometriosis

Our special guests:

Dr Alecia Macrow who is a General Practitioner, owner of Thrive Family Practice, and one of 22 clinics around Australia that received government funding to assist patients with pelvic pain and endometriosis.

Associate Professor Susan Evans who is a Gynaecologist, Surgeon and Pain management physician in Adelaide. Associate Professor Evans is Executive Chair of the Pelvic Pain Foundation of Australia and CEO of Alyra Biotech which is a biopharmaceutical company developing intrauterine products for pain relief.

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