Lori -

Where you live in Virgina, there are a couple of programs in Baltimore - at Johns Hopkins - that may be of interest to you::

1.) Johns Hopkins Research Program for the Study of Chronic Pain Syndromes in Women Principal Investigator: Ursula Wesselmann, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/PelvicPain/home.html and

2.) The Johns Hopkins Women's Center for Pelvic Health, http://www.hopkinsbayview.org/pelvicfloor/index.html

Dr. Wesselmann is tremendousley - nationally and beyond - well regarded and specializes in pain of neurological origin ("An important feature of our basic science studies is the possibility of a rapid clinical outcome, based on a better understanding of the nervous system pathways processing nociceptive information from the pelvis and urogenital area, and the readily available opportunity to study pharmacological manipulations in these animal models . . .") whle the Women's Center for Pelvic Health appears to be organized along traditional ines of OB/GYN, Urology and PT.

Worth checking out in any event.

Mike