Facts and Statistics

Researchers estimate that 12-20% of women have chronic pelvic pain; up to 33% of women will have pelvic pain during their lifetime. Unfortunately, 61% of women with chronic pelvic pain remain undiagnosed.
 

Ten percent of visits to gynecologists are for diagnosis and treatment of chronic pelvic pain.
 

Thirty percent of women with pelvic pain who have been referred to pain clinics have already had a hysterectomy.
 

Twenty percent of laparoscopies (lighted telescope placed into the abdominal cavity) are performed because of chronic pelvic pain.
 

Twenty-five percent of women affected by chronic pelvic pain are bed ridden for close to three days a month. 

Almost 60% of women with chronic pelvic pain must limit their usual activity one or more days a month.
 

As many as 60% of women with chronic pelvic pain never receive a specific diagnosis.
 

Researchers estimate that 90 million women in the world have endometriosis.