Guest blogger Dr. Jeannette Potts, of Vista Urology and Pelvic Pain Partners, has a great deal of experience treating male pelvic pain. In this post, she sheds some light on sexual dysfunction associated with male pelvic pain. The continued misuse of the generic diagnosis, “prostatitis,” remains a disservice to the vast majority of patients suffering from pelvic and genital pain …
Male Pelvic Pain PT Patient: Should I Masturbate during Healing?
… Had Fourth-Degree Tear after Delivery: How Can I Help Myself Heal? …Should I have the Pudendal Nerve Decompression Surgery? …Can Yoga Help Strengthen my Pelvic Floor? These are the reader questions we will be answering in this Q&A blog post! So read on, and if you have any questions of your own, ask away in the comment section or …
Q&A: What could be Causing my Penile and Perineum Pain?
…Should I Continue with Biofeedback and E-stim? …If Kegels are bad, then what are we supposed to do for urine leakage? …Why is yoga making my pelvic pain worse? These are the reader questions we will be answering and in this Q&A blog post. So read on, and if you have any questions of your own, ask away in the …
The Case of Female Pelvic Pain, Painful Sex
This week’s post is a case study of a female pelvic pain patient. Before I get into the specifics of the case, let’s first take a look at female pelvic pain by the numbers: 10% of all visits to gynecologists are due to chronic pelvic pain. 25% of women will experience chronic vulvar pain at some point in their lives. …