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Let’s Talk About (Painful) Sex

We’ve all come to normalize pain in our lives in some sense. At some point, you may have sought out therapy for the various aches and pains you’ve experienced, but did you know that pelvic health physical therapy was an option for painful sexual intercourse or dyspareunia? In fact, I can’t keep track of the amount of times I have heard from a patient or a friend who thought it was normal to have pain with sexual intercourse. Statistics show [...]

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Unnati Topiwala2023-09-23T04:59:39-04:00May 19th, 2023|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles, Women's Health Articles|Tags: Organ systems, Endometriosis and infertility, reducing endometriosis, period pain, menstruation, Thoracic endometriosis, Dysmenorrhea, Heavy menstrual bleeding, Worldwide Endometriosis March, Dyspareunia, Human reproduction, Gynaecology, Pelvic pain, RTT, menstrual cycle, period, endometriosis, pain, Women's Health|

If you’ve ever gone through a menstrual cycle, then chances are you have experienced pain during that cycle at some point in your life. But how many of you have experienced debilitating pain during menstruation that has kept you from getting out of bed for days? Debilitating pain that has caused you to miss school, work, and events with your family or friends? While periods can be painful, particularly during heavier flows, it is not common to have excruciating pain [...]