Australian online programme teaches GPs to better understand chronic pelvic pain

Experts say chronic pelvic pain is often underdiagnosed and undertreated with the average diagnosis time of endometriosis being 6.6 years worldwide.

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00:00Pelvic pain is complex and it involves a lot of different organs.

00:10When pain's affecting someone's function on a day-to-day basis where they can't go to

00:15work, they can't school, they can't parent their family as well as they can, that's not

00:21normal.

00:26Sometimes I experience burning and searing pain.

00:30Sometimes I experience deep aching.

00:32Sometimes I have muscle spasms and a kind of bruising sensation.

00:46I don't want them to have to spend 25 years wondering why they're in pain and why no one

00:52can help them.

00:53Now hopefully they won't have to.

01:04These patients need a team, but the GP is the perfect person to direct that team and

01:09direct that care, follow the patient up well.