After only 6 months, a 46% drop in pain! Not bad.Trigger Point Wand Eases Chronic Pelvic Pain
Jill Stein
May 23, 2011 (Washington, DC) — An internal therapeutic trigger point wand can help relieve the pelvic muscle tenderness that commonly occurs in patients with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), according to data released here at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting.
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, found that patients with chronic pelvic pain refractory to standard therapies had marked improvement when they used a wand to self-treat painful internal myofascial trigger points in the pelvic floor. What's more, the treatment was shown to be safe.
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Pelvic muscle trigger point sensitivity data were available in 111 patients. Their baseline median pelvic muscle sensitivity score on the 10-point visual analog scale was 7.5, which had decreased significantly to 4 at 6 months (P < .001). Ninety-five of the 111 patients, or 87%, had at least some reduction in sensitivity after 6 months
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