Can Hypnotherapy Help With Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain?
If you live with endometriosis or chronic pelvic pain, you may have spent years being told different versions of the same things:
“Your scans look fine.”
“The surgery was successful.”
“Try not to stress.”
“Maybe you're just sensitive to pain.”
Or, perhaps most frustratingly:
“It's probably psychological.”
So before I explain where Clinical Hypnotherapy may fit into persistent pelvic pain care, I want to make one thing very clear:
Your pain is real.
Endometriosis is a physical disease.
Hypnotherapy does not remove endometriosis lesions.
It does not replace gynaecological care.
It does not mean your symptoms are caused by your thoughts.
And I would never tell a woman that she simply needs to relax, think differently or regulate her nervous system and her endometriosis will disappear.
But pain is also more complex than tissue damage alone.
Pain is an experience produced by the nervous system and brain in response to information from the body, previous experience, context, expectation, threat, attention and many other biological and psychological processes.
And this is precisely why two things can be true at the same time:
There can be genuine physical pathology in the pelvis.
And:
The nervous system can become increasingly sensitive to pain over time.
This is where therapies such as Clinical Hypnotherapy may have a supportive role.
Not as a cure for endometriosis.
Not as an alternative to medicine.
But as one way of working with the pain experience itself - including attention, anticipation, fear, muscle tension, emotional distress, learned associations and the way the nervous system responds to persistent threat.
For some women, that distinction changes everything.
Can hypnotherapy cure endometriosis?
No.
Clinical Hypnotherapy does not cure endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus.
Management may involve medical treatment, hormonal treatment, surgery, physiotherapy, pain medicine, psychological support and other forms of multidisciplinary care depending on the individual woman.
Hypnotherapy should not be presented as a substitute for appropriate medical diagnosis or treatment.
What hypnotherapy may potentially support is how pain is processed and experienced, alongside some of the emotional and behavioural consequences of living with persistent pain.
That can include:
pain-related fear
anticipatory anxiety
hypervigilance toward bodily sensations
stress surrounding flares
sleep disruption
muscle guarding
feelings of helplessness
disconnection from the body
anxiety around intimacy
fear of future pain
the emotional exhaustion of living with chronic symptoms
These are not imaginary side effects.
They are part of what it means to live inside a body that has repeatedly hurt.
Why can pelvic pain persist even when endometriosis has been treated?
This is one of the most important conversations we can have about persistent pelvic pain.
Sometimes treating the underlying disease substantially reduces pain.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Some women continue experiencing pelvic pain after surgery or medical treatment.
That does not mean the surgery “failed.”
It does not necessarily mean more endometriosis has been missed.
And it certainly does not mean the woman is imagining her pain.
Pain and pathology are related, but they are not perfectly interchangeable.
Researchers increasingly recognise that chronic pelvic pain can involve multiple contributors at the same time.
There may be:
active endometriosis
inflammation
pelvic floor dysfunction
nerve involvement
bladder or bowel conditions
musculoskeletal pain
altered pain processing
peripheral sensitisation
central sensitisation
emotional distress
disrupted sleep
repeated anticipation of pain
This complexity is one reason current chronic pelvic pain guidelines recommend an interdisciplinary biopsychosocial approach rather than assuming there is always one single mechanism to treat.
What is central sensitisation?
Central sensitisation is a term used to describe changes in the central nervous system that can make the system more responsive to pain-related input.
A simplified way to think about it is this:
If your nervous system has repeatedly received danger signals from an area of the body, it can become better at detecting and responding to those signals.
The threshold for threat may become lower.
The response may become faster.
Sensations that were previously tolerable may become more painful.
Pain may continue after the original triggering event has changed.
This is not your nervous system malfunctioning for no reason.
It is a protective system becoming highly sensitised.
Imagine a smoke alarm.
A well-functioning smoke alarm detects a genuine fire.
But after becoming increasingly sensitive, it may begin sounding when you make toast.
The alarm is real.
The sound is real.
The nervous system is genuinely producing the signal.
The problem is that the system has become extremely efficient at detecting possible danger.
Our pain systems can do something conceptually similar.
That doesn't mean “the pain is in your head.”
Your brain and nervous system are part of your body.
All pain involves the nervous system.
And understanding pain processing should never be used to dismiss the physical disease that may have contributed to that sensitisation in the first place.
Is central sensitisation relevant to endometriosis?
For some women, yes.
Research increasingly suggests that central sensitisation can be relevant in persistent endometriosis-associated pain.
A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis examined women with endometriosis who also had evidence of central sensitisation.
Women with central sensitisation experienced smaller improvements in pain following endometriosis surgery and were more likely to experience persistent pain afterwards.
That finding is clinically important.
It does not mean surgery is unnecessary.
It means that for some women, treating lesions alone may not address every mechanism contributing to the ongoing pain experience.
This is one reason I think persistent pelvic pain deserves a much broader conversation than:
“Where is the tissue?”
We may also need to ask:
What has the nervous system learned after months or years of repeated pain?
What does the nervous system learn from chronic pain?
Imagine having pain every month for years.
Then imagine never knowing how severe the next flare will be.
You wake up and scan:
Is it starting?
You notice a sensation.
Your attention goes immediately toward it.
You remember the last time the pain became unbearable.
Your body braces.
You begin thinking about whether you will need to cancel work.
Whether you can exercise.
Whether sex will hurt.
Whether you're going to lose another day to the pain.
The sensation now carries history.
It carries prediction.
It carries fear.
This doesn't mean fear created the endometriosis.
It means your system has learned from repeated painful experiences.
And of course it has.
That is what nervous systems do.
They learn.
They predict.
They protect.
If touching a hot stove repeatedly burned your hand, your body would eventually become very efficient at protecting you before you touched it again.
Persistent pain can involve a similar learning process.
This is why some women begin experiencing anxiety before the pain has even fully arrived.
Their bodies know what might be coming.
Why does pelvic pain make me feel anxious?
Because pain is threatening.
If your body repeatedly produces severe, unpredictable symptoms, it makes complete sense that your brain begins paying attention.
You may begin scanning your body.
Planning around symptoms.
Avoiding activities.
Worrying about flare-ups.
Feeling frightened by unfamiliar sensations.
Searching Google at midnight.
Wondering whether something new is wrong.
Being unable to relax because relaxing feels irresponsible when your body has repeatedly surprised you.
This is sometimes described as hypervigilance.
Hypervigilance itself is not a character flaw.
It is the nervous system trying to protect you through increased monitoring.
The problem is that constant monitoring can also make bodily sensations increasingly prominent.
Attention is powerful.
If I asked you to pay attention to your left foot right now, you may suddenly become aware of sensations that were already present but had previously remained in the background.
Persistent pain can make attention become increasingly organised around the painful area.
Again:
this does not create imaginary pain.
It is one component of how real pain may be experienced.
Why can fear make pain feel worse?
Pain and fear are closely connected because pain is fundamentally protective.
When your brain believes something may be dangerous, it makes sense for your system to increase protection.
That might mean:
more muscle tension
more guarding
heightened attention
faster threat detection
increased autonomic arousal
avoidance of movement or intimacy
stronger emotional responses to sensations
If pelvic pain repeatedly occurs during sex, for example, your body may begin preparing for pain before penetration occurs.
Your pelvic floor may tighten.
Your breathing may change.
Your attention narrows.
You anticipate what happened last time.
None of that means the original pain was psychological.
It means the body has learned that a particular situation may be dangerous.
And once that association has been learned, the anticipation itself can become part of the pain cycle.
This is the distinction I want women to understand.
There is a profound difference between saying:
“Your pain is caused by anxiety.”
and saying:
“Living with repeated pain can teach your nervous system to anticipate and protect against future pain.”
The first can feel dismissive.
The second respects both the biology of pain and the lived experience of the woman experiencing it.
This distinction sits at the heart of how I think about persistent pain.
I am not interested in convincing women that their bodies are making symptoms up.
I am interested in understanding why their bodies have become so committed to protection.
And whether we can begin creating experiences that communicate:
You don't have to protect me quite this much anymore.
So how could Clinical Hypnotherapy help chronic pelvic pain?
Hypnosis is a state involving focused attention and increased responsiveness to suggestion.
Within pain-focused hypnotherapy, that can create opportunities to work with several processes involved in the pain experience.
Depending on the woman and what is clinically appropriate, this might include:
1. Changing attention
Pain tends to demand attention.
And the more threatening a sensation feels, the more difficult it becomes to disengage from it.
Hypnosis may allow us to experiment with directing and broadening attention differently.
Not pretending the sensation does not exist.
But changing the degree to which it dominates awareness.
2. Working with the sensory qualities of pain
Pain is not one single sensation.
People describe:
burning.
aching.
stabbing.
pressure.
pulling.
throbbing.
heat.
tightness.
Hypnotic techniques can sometimes involve changing the imagined sensory qualities of pain.
A sensation may be imagined as cooling.
Softening.
Moving further away.
Becoming less intense.
Occupying less space.
Again, I am not claiming that this removes the underlying disease.
We are working with perception.
And perception is one part of the pain experience.
3. Reducing anticipatory fear
Sometimes the fear of the next flare becomes almost as consuming as the flare itself.
You may recognise this if you find yourself constantly thinking:
What if it happens tomorrow?
What if I'm in pain at work?
What if sex hurts again?
What if this gets worse?
What if nothing ever changes?
Hypnotherapy may allow us to rehearse future experiences while building a different emotional and physiological response.
The goal isn't to promise yourself:
“I will never feel pain again.”
That is neither realistic nor compassionate.
The goal may instead become:
“If sensation appears, I have more ways of responding to it.”
That is a very different relationship with the body.
4. Working with muscle guarding
Pain can lead to muscular protection.
When something hurts, the body braces.
Over time, guarding itself can become habitual.
In pelvic pain, the pelvic floor and surrounding musculature may also be relevant, which is one reason pelvic health physiotherapy can be such an important component of multidisciplinary care.
Hypnosis may be used alongside appropriate medical and physiotherapy care to encourage awareness, relaxation and a reduction in unnecessary protective tension.
5. Working with body trust
This is an area of persistent pain that I think is frequently underestimated.
When your body hurts repeatedly, you can begin to feel betrayed by it.
You stop trusting it.
You fear it.
You monitor it.
You resent it.
Sometimes you disconnect from it entirely.
The relationship becomes:
me versus my body.
For many women, part of therapeutic work is not simply reducing a pain score.
It is rebuilding a relationship with the body that is not entirely organised around fear.
What does the research say about hypnosis for chronic pain?
Hypnosis has been studied as an intervention for many forms of clinical pain.
The most recent large systematic review, published in 2026, evaluated more than 100 studies of hypnosis for clinical pain.
Overall, hypnosis produced modest reductions in pain compared with non-active controls.
Importantly, however, it did not clearly outperform other active psychological approaches, including relaxation, pain education and cognitive behavioural therapy.
I think this finding is important because it allows us to discuss hypnotherapy honestly.
Hypnosis is not magic.
It is not demonstrably superior to every other pain intervention.
And I would be wary of any practitioner who markets it that way.
Instead, research suggests hypnosis may be one useful psychological tool within a broader pain-management approach.
A separate systematic review of more than 6,000 participants also found that adding hypnosis to usual care produced a small additional reduction in chronic pain, although the researchers rated the certainty of the overall evidence as very low.
So there is evidence of potential benefit.
There are also limitations.
Both matter.
What does the research say specifically about hypnosis for chronic pelvic pain?
This evidence is currently much more limited.
A 2023 systematic review specifically examined hypnotherapy for chronic pelvic pain.
It found only nine eligible studies, including four randomised controlled trials.
When the randomised trials were combined, hypnotherapy did not show a statistically significant improvement in pain or quality of life compared with control groups.
The researchers highlighted considerable differences between the studies and concluded that better-designed research is needed.
More recent reviews continue to describe hypnosis for chronic pelvic and urogenital pain as promising but preliminary.
So I would not tell a woman:
“Hypnotherapy has been proven to treat endometriosis pain.”
The evidence does not justify that statement.
I would tell her:
Hypnosis has a broader evidence base in clinical pain, while evidence specifically for chronic pelvic pain remains limited. It may be considered as one supportive component within multidisciplinary care, particularly when fear, attention, hypervigilance, stress or learned pain responses are relevant.
That is a far more responsible claim.
Can hypnotherapy reduce endometriosis pain?
It may help some women with aspects of their pain experience, but we cannot currently guarantee this.
This is where the distinction between endometriosis treatment and pain management becomes essential.
Hypnotherapy does not remove endometriosis lesions.
But potentially modifiable contributors to persistent pain may include things such as:
pain-related anxiety
hypervigilance
muscular tension
catastrophising
sleep
emotional distress
avoidance
threat perception
attention
learned anticipatory responses
Working with these factors does not make the pain psychological.
It acknowledges the modern understanding that persistent pain is multidimensional.
What does “biopsychosocial” pain actually mean?
This word is often misunderstood.
It does not mean:
“Your pain is partly imaginary.”
The biopsychosocial model simply recognises that health and pain are shaped by interacting biological, psychological and social processes.
For a woman with endometriosis, biological factors might include:
lesions
inflammation
nerve sensitisation
hormonal influences
pelvic floor dysfunction
other pain conditions
Psychological factors might include:
fear
stress
attention
mood
expectations
previous experiences
coping responses
Social factors might include:
whether anybody believes your pain
financial stress from missed work
relationship difficulties
access to healthcare
sexual expectations
caring responsibilities
years of dismissal by medical professionals
These factors do not compete with one another.
They interact.
That is why good chronic pain care increasingly moves away from asking:
“Is this physical or psychological?”
and toward asking:
“What factors are contributing to this woman's experience, and where can we meaningfully intervene?”
Does stress cause endometriosis?
No.
I would not tell a woman that stress caused her endometriosis.
That is an extraordinary oversimplification.
Endometriosis is a complex medical condition whose development is not explained by whether somebody is sufficiently relaxed or emotionally regulated.
However, stress and pain can interact.
Pain itself is stressful.
Years of medical appointments are stressful.
Not being believed is stressful.
Having to plan your life around your menstrual cycle can be stressful.
Worrying whether you will be able to work tomorrow is stressful.
Pain during sex can affect relationships.
Fertility uncertainty can be stressful.
Repeatedly fearing the next flare can keep the body in a state of heightened arousal.
So rather than asking:
“Did stress cause this?”
I think a much more useful question is:
“What is the relationship between stress, threat and pain in this individual woman's system now?”
What if my scans or surgery don't explain how much pain I am in?
Pain intensity does not always map neatly onto visible pathology.
That can be enormously confusing.
Especially for women who have already spent years trying to convince people that something is wrong.
If someone then tells you:
“But your scans aren't that bad,”
it can feel like another version of being dismissed.
Your pain does not need to pass a visual test in order to be real.
Persistent pain may involve several overlapping mechanisms.
This is why comprehensive assessment matters.
It is also why continued or changing pain should be medically evaluated rather than automatically attributed to sensitisation.
Psychological or nervous-system-informed care should never become a reason to stop investigating medically relevant symptoms.
What if my pain gets worse before my period?
Many women experience cyclical changes in pelvic pain.
If your pain follows your menstrual cycle or changes substantially across the month, that is important information to discuss with your medical team.
From a therapeutic perspective, cyclical pain can also create a powerful anticipatory pattern.
You may reach a certain point in your cycle and begin thinking:
Here it comes.
You remember the previous month.
You change your plans.
You become increasingly vigilant.
Your body begins bracing.
This does not mean anticipation caused the underlying cyclical pain.
But it may add another layer to the experience.
Sometimes part of the work becomes helping the nervous system distinguish between:
a signal that requires attention
and
an entire cascade of fear built around what might happen next.
Can hypnotherapy help pain during sex?
Potentially, depending on what is contributing to the pain.
Pain during intimacy can be extraordinarily complex.
Possible contributors can include endometriosis, pelvic floor dysfunction, vulvovaginal pain conditions, hormonal factors, previous painful experiences and many other medical or psychological factors.
It deserves proper medical assessment.
But repeated pain during intimacy can also create a strong learned expectation:
sex = pain.
And once the body predicts pain, it may respond protectively before anything has happened.
Muscles tighten.
Arousal reduces.
Attention becomes vigilant.
The body waits for the moment it is going to hurt.
For some women, therapeutic work may therefore include rebuilding safety around intimacy and reconnecting with sensation, choice, pleasure and agency.
This can sit alongside pelvic floor physiotherapy, medical care, sex therapy or other appropriate supports.
What if I feel disconnected from my body?
I hear this more often than people realise.
Sometimes chronic pain turns the body into something that is only noticed when something goes wrong.
Your pelvis becomes a site of symptoms.
Your menstrual cycle becomes something to survive.
Intimacy becomes something to monitor.
Exercise becomes something to calculate.
Your body stops feeling like somewhere you live and begins feeling like something you manage.
In that context, telling somebody to “listen to your body” can feel almost absurd.
You've been listening.
It has been shouting.
One of the things I am interested in therapeutically is whether we can gradually create experiences of the body that are not entirely centred around symptoms.
Comfort.
Pleasure.
Warmth.
Strength.
Movement.
Breath.
Safety.
Neutrality.
Sometimes the first goal isn't:
love your body.
Sometimes it is simply:
can being in your body become less frightening?
This is where my perspective differs.
I don't believe the goal is to convince your nervous system that there is no danger when there is genuine pathology that deserves treatment.
Nor do I believe every protective response needs to be extinguished.
Pain protects us.
Fear protects us.
Hypervigilance developed for a reason.
Your nervous system isn't your enemy.
But a protective system can become exhausted.
It can become sensitised.
It can begin predicting danger extremely efficiently.
And sometimes protection continues beyond the point at which it is useful.
So I am less interested in telling your body:
“Nothing is wrong.”
And much more interested in helping it develop greater discrimination:
What requires protection right now?
What does not?
Can I experience sensation without immediately predicting catastrophe?
Can my body soften where it no longer needs to brace?
Can I trust myself to respond if pain appears?
Can I inhabit my body without constantly monitoring it for danger?
That is a very different therapeutic aim.
What might a hypnotherapy session for pelvic pain involve?
There is no standard script I give every woman with pelvic pain.
Your experience matters.
A session may begin by exploring:
your medical history
what you understand about your condition
when pain occurs
what sensations you experience
what you fear when pain begins
how you respond to a flare
whether you brace or guard
how pain affects sleep
how pain affects intimacy
how you feel toward your body
what you avoid because of pain
what you most want to regain
The hypnosis itself might involve work with:
focused attention
relaxation where appropriate
sensation
imagery
pain modulation
anticipatory anxiety
perceived safety
muscular guarding
emotional associations
future rehearsal
body connection
My sessions are 90 minutes, with the hypnotic component commonly around 30–45 minutes, depending on what we are working with.
The goal is not to force pain to disappear.
It is to work intelligently with the factors that may be modifiable.
What hypnotherapy cannot do for endometriosis:
This section is important.
Clinical Hypnotherapy cannot:
diagnose endometriosis
remove endometriosis lesions
replace gynaecological assessment
replace indicated medical treatment
guarantee pain elimination
prove that persistent pain is psychological
safely explain every new symptom as nervous-system sensitisation
If you experience new, severe, rapidly changing or concerning symptoms, medical assessment matters.
Hypnotherapy belongs within an appropriate scope of practice.
What might multidisciplinary endometriosis care look like?
There is no identical care team for every woman.
Depending on your symptoms and circumstances, care might involve:
a GP
gynaecologist
endometriosis specialist
pelvic health physiotherapist
pain specialist
psychologist or other mental-health professional
dietitian where appropriate
sexual health or sex therapy support
Clinical Hypnotherapy as an adjunctive intervention
This is not evidence that your condition is “all in your head.”
It is evidence that persistent pelvic pain is complex enough to deserve more than one lens.
When might Clinical Hypnotherapy be worth exploring?
You might consider exploring hypnotherapy alongside appropriate medical care if you notice that:
you live in constant fear of your next flare
you monitor your pelvic sensations throughout the day
every new sensation immediately feels threatening
your body braces in anticipation of pain
pain has made you fearful of intimacy
you feel disconnected from or angry with your body
pain dominates your attention even on better days
anxiety around symptoms is reducing your quality of life
you struggle to relax because you are constantly waiting for something to go wrong
you want additional non-pharmacological tools for managing persistent pain
This doesn't automatically mean hypnotherapy will be the right intervention for you.
But it may be worth discussing.
Frequently asked questions about hypnotherapy, endometriosis and pelvic pain
Can hypnotherapy cure endometriosis?
No. Clinical Hypnotherapy does not cure endometriosis or remove endometriosis lesions. Endometriosis requires appropriate medical assessment and management.
Can hypnotherapy reduce endometriosis pain?
Possibly for some women, but the evidence specifically for hypnotherapy in endometriosis-associated pelvic pain remains limited. Hypnosis has a broader evidence base for clinical pain, where recent reviews suggest modest pain reductions.
Is chronic pelvic pain psychological?
No. Chronic pelvic pain is real and may involve multiple biological, neurological, musculoskeletal, psychological and social factors. Psychological interventions can form part of pain management without implying that pain is imaginary.
What is central sensitisation in endometriosis?
Central sensitisation refers to increased responsiveness of the central nervous system to pain-related input. Research suggests it may contribute to persistent pain for some women with endometriosis, including after treatment of the disease itself.
Does anxiety make pelvic pain worse?
Anxiety can interact with pain through attention, muscular tension, autonomic arousal, threat perception and anticipation. This does not mean anxiety caused the endometriosis or that pelvic pain is “just anxiety.”
Why do I panic when pelvic pain begins?
If previous episodes have been severe or unpredictable, your nervous system may learn to interpret early sensations as signals of impending danger. That can produce rapid fear, hypervigilance and protective responses.
Can hypnotherapy help pelvic floor tension?
Hypnosis may support relaxation and changes in protective muscle responses for some people, but pelvic floor dysfunction should also be assessed by an appropriately trained health professional such as a pelvic health physiotherapist.
Can hypnotherapy help painful sex caused by endometriosis?
It may support some of the fear, anticipation, guarding and emotional associations surrounding painful intimacy, but underlying medical and pelvic floor contributors should also be appropriately assessed and treated.
Does stress cause endometriosis?
There is no basis for telling women that stress alone causes endometriosis. Stress may interact with the experience of pain but should not be confused with the cause of the disease.
Should I choose hypnotherapy instead of medical treatment?
No. Clinical Hypnotherapy should not replace indicated medical diagnosis or treatment for endometriosis or pelvic pain. It may be used as part of a broader multidisciplinary approach.
Where can I see a Clinical Hypnotherapist for endometriosis and persistent pelvic pain in Brisbane?
I see women in person at The Work Well in Paddington, Brisbane, and online throughout Australia.
My work includes Clinical Hypnotherapy for women living with persistent pain and the psychological, emotional and nervous-system consequences that can accompany women's health conditions.
Clinical Hypnotherapy for Endometriosis and Persistent Pelvic Pain in Brisbane
Living with pelvic pain changes more than the sensation itself.
It can change how you move.
How you plan.
How you sleep.
How you relate to sex.
How much you trust your body.
How you experience your menstrual cycle.
How safe it feels to make plans.
How much attention you give every physical sensation.
Sometimes it can feel as though your entire life becomes organised around avoiding the next flare.
I think women deserve better than being told:
“Just relax.”
They also deserve better than having every aspect of their pain reduced to pathology alone when years of pain may have changed the way their entire system responds to threat.
Both matter.
Your medical condition matters.
Your nervous system matters.
Your emotional experience matters.
Your relationship with your body matters.
None cancels out the other.
I am Prue Walmsley, a Clinical Hypnotherapist specialising in women's health.
I hold a Bachelor of Psychological Science and a Diploma of Clinical Hypno-Psychotherapy, and I am a member of the Australian Hypnotherapists Association.
I work with women experiencing persistent pain, women's health concerns, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, body disconnection, intimacy concerns and the psychological patterns that can develop around living with symptoms over time.
I offer 90-minute Clinical Hypnotherapy appointments at The Work Well in Paddington, Brisbane, as well as online appointments across Australia.
My aim is not to convince you that the pain isn't real.
It is to help you understand that your nervous system is not your enemy — and to explore whether there are places where it may no longer need to work quite so hard to protect you.
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References & further reading
Yim TH, Derbyshire SWG. A Systematic Review of Hypnosis for Clinical Pain Relief. European Journal of Pain. 2026.
Biurra YC, Chesterman S, Skvarc D, Mikocka-Walus A, Evans S. Hypnotherapy for chronic pelvic pain: A scoping systematic review and meta-analysis. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. 2023.
Adjunctive use of hypnosis for clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2024.
Guideline No. 445: Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain. 2024.
Gomez-Llerena A, et al. The Impact of Targeted Endometriosis Treatment on Patients With Central Sensitization: Systematic Review and Meta Analysis. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. 2026.
Pain-focused psychological interventions in women with endometriosis: A systematic review. 2023.
Efficacy of non-pharmacological therapies in chronic pelvic pain of endometriosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2025.
