CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN? MT. SINAI IN TORONTO with DR. ALLAN GORDON '

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HI all.

Dr. Allan Gordon is a older long time member of the VD group and is located in the Toronto Ontario (Canada) area. He and Sandi Sharp (another long time member) did a big survery or poll using us. Also did a study connecting nipple pain with clitoral pain too. He runs a chronic pain clinic there (or did last I heard). Here's an older article I found in my things and just passing it on. Dee

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Sufferers from Chronic Pelvic Pain find unique treatment resources at Mount Sinai Hospital

Toronto, ON, January 24, 2001— Ontario’s first multidisciplinary Chronic Pelvic Region Pain Unit officially opened today at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Funded in part through a new partnership with Pharmacia Canada Inc., the clinic will provide a "pain-focused" approach to disorders that are otherwise often under-diagnosed, misdiagnosed and poorly treated.

"Chronic pelvic region pain is a serious group of disorders that affects many women," says Dr. Allan Gordon, Director of the Wasser Pain Management Centre. "To properly treat pelvic pain, we need to take a multidisciplinary approach that includes not just gynaecologists but other disciplines, bringing together neurologists and other pain specialists from nursing, urogynaecology, acupuncture, clinical neurophysiology, physical therapy and mental health services."

Studies report that 50 to 70 per cent of all women may experience pelvic pain during intercourse at some point in their lives.

More than 15 per cent of women suffer from a form of chronic pelvic region pain (CPRP) that often goes undiagnosed.

These conditions include persistent and severe menstrual and mid-cycle pain, endometriosis, vulvar pain syndromes, cystitis syndromes, pelvic muscle pain syndromes, and pains from nerve entrapment.

Although not as prevalent as in women, men can also develop CPRP. Men suffer from chronic prostate pain or prostatitis, testicular, groin and penile pain. There are very few, if any academic centres that look at both men’s health issues and chronic pain.

"This new unit continues to build on our expertise in the care and treatment of pain through the Wasser Pain Management Centre," said ph Mapa, Mount Sinai Hospital President and Chief Executive Officer. "It is also a natural expansion of the comprehensive programs we offer to women through our centre of excellence in women’s and infants’ health.

To our knowledge, there is no other hospital in Toronto with an integrated and dedicated full service pelvic pain unit, nor is there one that is part of a larger academic pain centre."

Situated in a teaching hospital, patients coming to the Chronic Pelvic Region Pain Unit will have access to a wide range of services through the Wasser Pain Management Centre’s...

(SEE http://www.mtsinai.on.ca/wasser/ Dee)

....comprehensive multidisciplinary team and will have access to other specialty services within the Hospital and the pain community. The new unit was made possible through a generous gift of $300,000 by Pharmacia Canada.

"Pharmacia is a strong supporter of Mount Sinai’s excellent work in the area of pain management and women’s health," said Cloutier, president, Pharmacia Canada Inc. "We are proud that our support has helped make this initiative a reality for patients."

"We are truly grateful for the support we have received from Pharmacia Canada," said Bernard Ghert, Mount Sinai Hospital Chairman of the Board. "Through this partnership we are addressing a serious health issue for women."

Founded in 1923, Mount Sinai Hospital is recognized nationally and internationally for its excellence in the provision of compassionate patient care, teaching and research. A University of Toronto affiliated hospital, its key priority programs are women’s and infants' health, surgical oncology, musculoskeletal disease, gastrointestinal disease, molecular and sub-specialty medicine, and the Lunenfeld Research Institute.

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Dee

wrote:

Dr.

Allan Gordon is a older long time member of the VD group and is located in the

Toronto Ontario (Canada) area. He and Sandi Sharp (another long time member)

did a big survey or poll using us. Also did a study connecting nipple pain with

clitoral pain too.”

Wow!

For my entire adult life, I’ve experience mild to severe discomfort on

the nipple front. I always figured that I was wired wrong. It’s funny, I

have women friends who’ve described orgasms initiated via nipple action

only. My experience would be the polar opposite. I simply cannot bear the

sensation. It’s not explicit pain, instead it’s a sensation that

makes my stomach insides crawl and initiates the most physically intense

feeling of depression – all within a few seconds.

It

never dawned on me that it could be associated with vulvodynia.

Steph