Abuse and hysterectomy, are the two linked?

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There is growing body of research evidence suggesting that adults who have experienced childhood abuse are more likely to have health problems than those without these experiences. Since the early days of the Hysterectomy Association, over 20 years ago, there have been a significant number of women self-reporting some form of abuse in their past history.
The types of abuse they talk about ranges widely from sexual and physical to bullying, often experiencing more than one type with more than one person involved at different times of their life. These disclosures are often made in emails and conversations when discussing their life to date, rather than in the context of their hysterectomy and health problems. This anecdotal evidence is large enough that, when combined with the more formal research material we were able to find, we realised it was an issue that needed to be explored.
Currently the research literature is focused on an pretty much established link between chronic pelvic pain and childhood sexual abuse, there was little that considered this topic specifically. So, we created a new research survey to look at the most common gynaecological conditions, hysterectomy and different forms of abuse. We’d like women of all ages, in good health and bad, whether they have had a hysterectomy and whether or not they have experienced any form of abuse, to complete it. Only by...

Source: The Hysterectomy Association - August 4, 2017 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Tags: Research abuse physical abuse sexual abuse Source Type: news