To the Issue on the Use of Acupuncture in Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (Literature Review)

Abstract

Chronic pelvic pain syndrome in women is the multidisciplinary problem with the complex multicomponent pathogenesis. Pelvic pain is the result of the convergence of three pathological processes: reducing the threshold of pain sensitivity, the emergence of persistent generators of pathological polymodal afferent impulses, violations of efferent impulses. Among the most significant changes that initiate and maintain chronic pelvic pain, there are such as: various venous disorders, violations of vegetative innervation, chronic inflammatory processes, myofascial syndromes, somatic depression and conversion disorders. Treatment of chronic pelvic pain is difficult, long-term and insufficiently effective process. Acupuncture can provide significant assistance in the treatment of this syndrome.