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Development and Psychometric Validation of the Pelvic Dystonia Severity Scale (PDSS)

2026-07-27

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<h4>Background</h4> Chronic pelvic pain with involuntary pelvic-floor hypertonicity is common, disabling, and inconsistently measured, and no validated condition-specific severity instrument exists. A refractory subset has been proposed to represent a focal dystonia of the pelvic musculature, termed pelvic dystonia . <h4>Purpose</h4> To develop the Pelvic Dystonia Severity Scale (PDSS) and evaluate its measure...

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Literature Corpus work: 157bd92a-a5a1-5fa9-8efb-856576ad7bfa
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.24.26358500

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