Ivan Urits

Lower back pain (LBP) is one of the most common presenting complaints in clinical adult medical patients. While most often diagnosed as "nonspecific mechanical" in etiology, several lesser known, rarer causes of LBP exist, some of which can…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This is a comprehensive review of the superior hypogastric block for the management of chronic pelvic pain. It reviews the background, including etiology, epidemiology, and current treatment available for chronic pelvic p…

Infertility, the inability to establish a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse, is caused by a wide variety of both male and female factors. Infertility is estimated to affect between 8-12% of couples…

CONTEXT: Pelvic pain is described as pain originating from the visceral or somatic system localizing to the pelvis, the anterior abdominal wall at the level of or below the umbilicus, lumbosacral back in either men or women. EVIDENCE ACQUI…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a musculoskeletal pain condition that stems from localized, taut regions of skeletal muscle and fascia, termed trigger points. The purpose of this comprehensive review is to provide updat…

BACKGROUND: Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder (AC) is characterized by fibrosis and contracture of the glenohumeral joint capsule, resulting in progressive stiffness, pain, and restriction of motion of the shoulder. The prevalence of AC i…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This is a review of elagolix use for pain related to endometriosis. It summarizes the background and recent data available about the pathogenesis of endometriosis and pain that is secondary to this syndrome. It then revie…

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women is defined as noncyclical and persistent pain lasting more than six months perceived to be related to the pelvis. There are many etiologies that can cause CPP, including gynecologic, urologic, gastrointest…

Patients with chronic pelvic pain are often referred to a variety of specialists in gynecology, urology, and gastroenterology with the hope of finding a diagnosis and treatment. We describe a 51-year-old woman with long-standing chronic pel…

•Diagnosing these patients is rather difficult, majority of the patients in the case series shared chronic pelvic pain as a common symptom.•Nerve blocks with image guided fluoroscopy can potentially eliminate the patient's chronic pelvic pa…