title: [Chronicle of functional pain: chronic pelvic pains].
abstract: Chronic pelvic pains are one of the most frequent complaints in our daily gynecological practice, motivating at least a quarter of our consultants. As it usually puts the practitioner ill at ease in a difficult situation, we will try to understand the meaning of those particular pains, thus defined: a duration outlasting 6 months and the absence or the ineffective suppression of any organic--somatic--substratum. But every alleged pain is real and true, and we must work on that. To validate such suffering, to accept such repetitive complaints, can also be a therapeutic medical approach, even if it is less gratifying for the gynecologist, and certainly less customary.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lachowsky
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D059408:Pain Management; D010388:Pelvis; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Chronique d'une douleur fonctionnelle: les pelvialgies chroniques.