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Five persistent myths about chronic pelvic pain — United States focus

Medically reviewed by Dr Renaud Bollens — Professor of Urology

United States focus

What patients in the United States should know about chronic pelvic pain myths, and how care abroad fits alongside care at home.

Myth: a normal scan means nothing is wrong. In nerve pain a normal scan is expected, not reassuring.

Myth: pelvic pain is psychological when tests are negative. Pain that follows a nerve territory and changes with posture is anatomical, whatever the tests showed.

Myth: nothing can be done. For a compressed nerve, decompression is a real, established surgical option in the right patient.

US patients keep their local physician in the loop throughout; we share our written opinion with them directly on request.