A Personalising Revolution: How London’s Vulva Pain Clinic Is Pioneering Holistic Care

Here at the world class London Vulva Pain Clinic, our eminent Pain Doctors are renowned for their sensitivity and exceptionally successful approach to treating patients. – Our cutting-edge state-of-the-art approach to ameliorating vulvodynia and vulva pain goes way beyond a GP just prescribing pain killers and fobbing off the condition. (This is because a general practitioner has not had the necessary years of additional training and in-house clinical expertise of that of a Pain Doctor). Moreover, according to many reports, a GP may not even recognise the condition, or they may give an inaccurate diagnosis.

The Crucial Need For a Holistic Approach

Our Vulva Consultants provide a fully comprehensive strategy in which patients with vulva pain and vulvodynia can get their life back on track as soon as possible. Treatments and guidance can incorporate some of the following aspects:

• Pharmaceuticals
• Medical cannabis
• Topical treatments
• Injectables (including pain blockers) which are backed by research
• Therapies (including specialist physiotherapy)
• Exercises (which patients can easily do at home)
• Advice on taking specific supplements
• Home remedy advice
• Guidance on the use of personal products and detergents etc.
• Advice on wearing suitable clothing
• Managing pain, reducing pain perception, and ways to desensitise the nervous system. – Long-term pain can generate nerve sensitisation whereby the nervous system overreacts to stimuli (such as touch). To that end, holistic approaches (including pain education and graded exposure), can be extremely beneficial in lowering pain perception and desensitising the nervous system
• Advice on any psychological aspects that may arise
• Stress management techniques that can be done anywhere
• Talking about the best ways to have intimate relations during difficult times
• Strategies for eliminating and reducing negative thinking and emotions
• Lifestyle modifications
• Diet advice

Changing Patients’ Outlook

Here at the London Vulva Pain Clinic, our Pain Doctors strongly believe in empowering patients to promote their own self-efficacy. – This is because when our patients make positive lifestyle changes and actively participate in their Holistic Personalised Treatment Plan, they are able to regain a sense of positivity and control over their situation.

Getting Things Sorted

Once you have an in-person or online consultation with a Vulva Doctor who will review your medical history, and ask you any pertinent questions (including details about your symptoms), any necessary examination and tests will be undertaken. After this, you will be given an accurate diagnosis, and you will then be able to get started on a Holistic Personalised Treatment Plan as soon as possible. Your Vulva Doctor will also discuss various lifestyle changes, techniques, and home remedies that will help you supplement your treatment, and soothe your vulva and vagina pain symptoms.

Feeling at Ease Discussing Your Vulva Issues

As discussed in the much in-demand book, Viva la Vulva, which is written by one of the London Vulva Clinics leaders, Dr Christopher Jenner, MB BS, FRCA FFPMRC, many thousands of women suffer in silence without consulting a general practitioner or a Pain Specialist. – This is often because they:

• Feel embarrassed or even ashamed about discussing their intimate vulva/vagina pain and intimate sexual relationship issues
• Are not confident about how to approach the subject (especially if they are faced a male doctor)
• Do not realise that there are now proven cutting-edge holistic treatments that can help them get their life back on track

So in light of the aforementioned, discussing the issue with a sensitive experienced Vulva Pain Specialist as soon as possible, is the smart way forward. And should you feel more comfortable being helped by a female Vulva Pain Doctor, then you only have to request this when booking your online or in-person appointment.