Pelvic pain is one of the most common and most under-served presentations in practice.

It cuts across the gut, the bladder, the reproductive system and the nervous system, and patients often arrive having already cycled through specialists, scans and dead ends without a clear answer or a plan they trust.

Dr Alecia Macrow of Thrive Family Practice joined us live to talk through how she approaches these patients in her clinic.

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What you'll take back to practice

- How chronic pelvic pain tends to present, and why it so often overlaps with IBS and other functional GI symptoms

- A practical first-line approach for the patient whose investigations are clear but whose pain is very real

- How to explain the nervous system's role in persistent pain without leaving patients feeling dismissed

- Where brain-gut therapies, including Nerva, fit alongside other management for patients with overlapping gut and pelvic symptoms

- How to keep patients engaged and hopeful when there isn't a single quick fix

Prefer to listen?

This webinar is also available on the Gut-Brain Therapy podcast.

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