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Advanced interventions for common pain conditions in women
Areerat Suputtitada1, Carl P C Chen2, Mark Young3, Neil A Segal4, Bryan O’Young5
1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
3 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Maryland Rehabilitation Center, USA
4 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
5 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, PA, USA
Correspondence Address:
Prof. Areerat Suputtitada
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Rama 4 Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
Thailand
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jisprm.jisprm_25_20
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Pain syndromes affecting women have a significant global impact. There is increasing evidence that chronic pain affects a higher proportion of women than men around the world; unfortunately, women are less likely to receive treatment. Moreover, women generally experience more recurrent pain, more severe pain and longer-lasting pain than men. Pain conditions are more prevalent in women such as fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain and lumbopelvic pain during pregnancy and postpartum. Gender differences in pain sensitivity, pharmacological therapy, and nonpharmacological pain interventions have also been reported. It is becoming evident that gender differences in pain and its relief arise from an interaction of genetic, anatomical, physiological, neuronal, hormonal, psychological and social factors that modulate pain differently.
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