Anesth Pain Med.  2012 Jan;7(1):22-24.

Successful treatment of vulvodynia with dry needling using a specially designed needle: A case report

Affiliations
  • 1Center for Interventional Pain Management, Daejeon Woori Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
  • 2Chronic Pain Management Center, Cha Biomedical Center, Kangnam Cha Hospital, College of Medicine, CHA University, Seoul, Korea.
  • 3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea. aneskyj@inje.ac.kr

Abstract

Vulvodynia is a chronic pain syndrome in female genitalia in the absence of visible infectious, inflammatory, or neoplastic findings or a clinically identifiable neurological disorder. We report a case of vulvodynia successfully treated with dry needling using a specially designed round needle (Ahn's needle). A 50-year-old woman was seen with 20-year-history of left-sided vulvar pain in the absence of infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, or neurological disorder. We diagnosed her condition as vulvodynia and conducted dry needling using an Ahn's needle. Dry needling was performed along left upper and middle labiocrural fold. She reported 50% improvement of vulvodynia after the first treatment and 100% improvement after the second treatment. She remained symptom free 9 months after treatment. Our report suggests that dry needling using an Ahn's needle have clinical significance in managing vulvodynia.

Keyword

Female; Genitalia; Pain; Vulvodynia

MeSH Terms

Chronic Pain
Female
Genitalia
Genitalia, Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Needles
Nervous System Diseases
Vulvodynia
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