Understand the problem before you compare the procedure.
This library is designed for the questions patients usually have before they are ready to talk about a specific intervention: Why does it hurt? What is embolization? How do symptoms point toward one cause instead of another? What are the non-procedural alternatives?
Why Pain Happens
Acute vs chronic pain, mechanical and inflammatory pain, nerve pain, referred pain, visceral pain, vascular pain and warning signs.
Read pain guide →What Is Embolization?
How a catheter reaches an artery or vein, what embolic materials do, why blood flow is intentionally changed, and how PAE, UFE, GAE and pelvic vein embolization differ.
Read embolization guide →Frequent Urination & BPH
Storage versus voiding symptoms, the IPSS symptom domains, bladder causes, prostate causes and the complete treatment spectrum.
Open guide →Fibroids
Bleeding versus bulk symptoms, anemia, fibroid location, fertility goals and uterus-preserving versus definitive options.
Open guide →Knee Pain
How osteoarthritis, inflammation, tendons, meniscus, nerves and referred pain can overlap — and why imaging alone does not choose a treatment.
Open guide →Shoulder Pain
Rotator cuff disease, frozen shoulder, bursitis, arthritis, cervical nerve pain and non-shoulder causes of shoulder-region pain.
Open guide →Pelvic Venous Disease
Venous reflux, standing-related pelvic symptoms, varices, imaging and other causes of chronic pelvic pain.
Open guide →Prepare for a Consultation
What history, imaging, medication lists, prior procedures and goals make a consultation more useful.
Open patient resources →What is the right next door?
Answer a few non-identifying questions about where you are in the process. This is navigation, not diagnosis.