This nerve pain can be blocked. Surgical staples can cause pain. Every time I pushed on the staples, it duplicated her pain. I removed the staples and her pain resolved. PAL has increased our understanding of endometriosis and pelvic pain.
Endometriosis has many visual appearances.
We have also learned that the pain associated with endometriosis extends out beyond the border of the visible lesions of endometriosis. From these facts we can conclude that effective treatment of endometriosis requires excision or vaporization of an area which extends well beyond the visible endometriosis. PAL is a diagnostic procedure which can help pinpoint the source of a patient's pain. This procedure is especially useful when other types of evaluation are not successful in identifying the cause of the pain. After changing majors to pre-med during his fourth year of college, Dr. Cook graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1981.