New guidelines emphasize the need to offer patients a range of pain management options for gynecological procedures. New ...

Nurse Genevieve Hofmann wants to make sure that patients feel heard and know what their pain management options are.

IUD insertion requires the placement of a speculum, ... So that tenaculum placement can be very painful. IUDs are placed in the uterus, which is a muscular organ. To do that, ...

The actual IUD insertion should only take about a minute or two, ... Next, they’ll stabilize your cervix for the procedure using a long-handled, slender instrument called a tenaculum.

And then there's an instrument we place onto the cervix for insertion of the IUD called a tenaculum. And placement of that instrument can also be painful.

So far, results from a very small patient sample haven’t shown statistically significant differences in pain during IUD placement with the Carevix versus the tenaculum, but larger studies will ...

The Carevix, used for IUD insertions, ... It’s not just the tenaculum that is ancient history—speculums haven’t had a major update since 1878, ...

If you’ve had an IUD inserted, we salute you. Having a coil put in is truly one of the most brutal things a person with a vagina can go through and having it taken out is no walk in the park ...

Reducing IUD Pain Aspivix Carevix. 1 minute read. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, ... It's painful in part due to the medieval-seeming tenaculum, ...

In August, the CDC released updated recommendations that encourage doctors to offer patients lidocaine and pain management tools during IUD insertions. But, Tatman believes there is still a long ...