Laia Blanco, physiotherapist expert in pelvic floor dysfunctions and co-director of RAP Barcelona, presents the case of Ana, a patient with long-evolution chronic pelvic pain who, at the time of arriving at consultation, was in a situation of great physical and emotional impact. As explained in the testimony, pain intensely conditioned her daily life, influencing aspects as basic as the clothes she could wear, her social, work and couple life. The initial approach required multidisciplinary work in which physiotherapy, psychology and psychiatry intervened, which allowed her to progressively recover a functional and stable life.
Over time, Ana achieved very positive evolution, to the point of resuming a completely normal life and maintaining only periodic physiotherapy sessions. However, she continued to be a person especially sensitive to stress and anxiety, factors that in moments of crisis directly impacted her physical state and the reappearance of pain.
In that context, the incorporation of NESA was considered as a support tool to intervene more quickly on those acute episodes. As the patient herself relates, after ten sessions she experienced a clear reduction in the level of stress, anxiety and fear, even reaching to deeply relax during treatment. This improvement translated into a rapid decrease in pain and the recovery of her habitual balance. Ana thus values NESA as a complementary resource to which she can resort in moments of greater emotional or physical dysregulation.
