This may cause significant stress and embarrassment and may be difficult for you to discuss openly but help is available.
What is pelvic and intimacy health?
Men can experience pelvic pain around the testes, along the shaft or tip of the penis, in the perineal area and around the anus as well as in the lower abdomen.
Pelvic pain for men is often associated with stress and anxiety and can affect intimacy health as well. Talk to us as we can help find the cause and offer solutions and steps to better pelvic health.
Signs and symptoms?
- Do you have pain in the: testes, penis, perineal area, anus or lower abdominal?
- Do you get pain post-orgasm that can last hours or days?
- Do you have sensitivity to tight clothes around the stomach or sensitivity to touch on the lower abdomen?
- Do you experience difficulty emptying the bladder or bowel?
- Do you have a new issue with achieving a strong erection or pain with gaining an erection?
Contributing factors to pelvic pain and intimacy problems?
- Stress and anxiety are significant contributing factors to any pelvic pain
- Cyclists, or anyone who sits for long hours
- History of low back or pelvic pain
- Significant loss of weight or gluteal mass meaning again you are sitting on the sacral bone and nerves rather than being cushioned by weight or muscle mass.
- History of chronic constipation, fissures or haemorrhoids
How can we help?
Physiotherapy help for intimacy / sexual problems?
Physiotherapy treatment can help return your sexual health using some treatments including:
- An individualized program to address any back or pelvic stiffness to allow correct sitting
- Pelvic floor muscle relaxation exercises
- Whole-body relaxation movements
- Reduce heavy core-based programs
- Stretches for gluteals, hip flexors, adductors and abdominal muscles
- Breathing exercises to release tension through the trunk
- Massage and dry needling to normalise muscle tone
- Loosen any tight joints around the pelvis and enable good sitting posture to offload the pudendal nerve that may be contributing to the pelvic pain
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