Pain in any part of the body is natural and not at all shameful. Then why so often women and teenage girls suffer in silence from painful affliction in their pelvic?

The above question follows findings of the newly submitted report that suggests that the afflictions actually cost the system at least $6.6 billion each year.

According to the report submitted today by the Pelvic Pain Steering Committee, one in every 10 Australian women and girls suffers from pelvic pain but they remain quiet and don’t mention it in shame.

Showing concern to the issue, the committee has also called on the Federal Government to recognize the same as a major health issue across the region and to start working on providing better training to health professionals along with introducing more community education programs to educate people regarding the same.

The report has clearly mentioned that: “Its stigma permeates every aspect of her care from her parents' perception of their daughter's complaints, through the lack of integrated health services to the absence of pelvic pain as a worthwhile subject for clinical research”.

Pelvic pain basically occurs as an abdominal pain but it affects below the level of the umbilicus. One can also associate this pain to the one that occurs during menstrual periods or same kind of problems that occurs with the digestive system, urinary system or the nervous system.

Often pelvic pain is also considered as an endometriosis condition, the treatment of which roughly cost Australia $6.6 billion (for the treatment of adult sufferers).

Ms. Susan Evans is one of the report's authors and also the Australian Gynecologist, a specialist of pelvic pain. While commenting on the costs of the treatment of pelvic pain, she said that the real cost of the treatment is higher because no indirect costs are covered in it.