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Taking a Biopsychosocial Approach: Does it Matter?

By Carolyn Vandyken Pelvic PT, Educator, Author There are two camps in treating pain: Tissue-based Camp of Treatment   Providers treat the tissues alone believing that there must be something bio-medically wrong with the tissues; if they can only mobilize, zap or anesthetize the right tissues, they will be able to change the pain. When the right tissues cannot be found to achieve this goal, these practitioners then medicate people […]

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Male Pelvic Pain: The Prostate Gland has been “Framed”

By Carolyn Vandyken  PT, Educator, Researcher & Author We usually come across Shakespeare’s “What is in a name?” quote when people are trying to explain that names don’t really matter; that all you need to know is what something is, not what it’s named. As it turns out, naming problems have had a significant effect on male pelvic pain and how it is treated.   The most common diagnosis given to

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