Vulvodynia Updates: Episode 87 with Michelle Lyons

Hello & Welcome to this episode - it's just me this week, taking a look at what's new in the understanding, assessment & effective treatment of vulvodyniaAll this week, I’ve been recording and uploading lectures and handouts and resources to the brand new vulvodynia module of my online Female Pelvic Pain Rehab course - and I wanted to share some of the highlights here in the podcastThe past 12 months have produced not only interest but clinically relevant research - it’s a great time to be working in pelvic pain rehab and one of my favourite things to do is to nerd out in the literature and see what’s clinically relevant There’s been a nice mix, from case reports to systematic reviews with meta analyses - and I love to see a growing awareness of the importance of a multimodal (and always non-nociceptive!) approach, whether considering trauma informed assessment interviewing skills to what we need to add to the pelvic rehab treatment toolbox to a library of handouts we can give to our patientsVulvodynia can be a scary diagnosis for both clinician and patient, so I want to take the fear factor away and create a paradigm or flowchart for clinical reasoning, from ruling out differential diagnoses to looking at what the evidence supports for treatment options (spoiler: it’s more than just using/ progression through a dilator set!)If you’re already enrolled in the online Female Pelvic Pain course, you don’t need to do anything - everything is uploaded in the portal….and if you haven’t signed up yet…come and join us! Apart from vulvodynia, you can take a deep dive into endometriosis, IC/Bladder Pain Syndrome, Pelvic Neuralgias, Female Sexual Pain and more! All through a biopsychosocial, pelvic rehab meets lifestyle, evidence based approach! All the details at CelebrateMuliebrity.com 🥳💗Until next time, Onwards & Upwards! Mx#celebratemuliebrity