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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 [...]

Male Pelvic Pain

Unnati Topiwala2022-04-27T07:57:55-04:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Wellness Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles|Tags: Clinical medicine, male pelvic floor, Male Health, Interstitial cystitis, Hard flaccid syndrome, Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, Men's health, Savas Koutsantonis, Medical specialties, Prostatitis, Pelvic pain, Pseudoscience, Urinary bladder disorders, Pain management, Medicine, dry needling, active, Pelvic Floor, American College of Sports Medicine, Injury Prevention, Emory University, Atlanta, Physical Therapy|

...it’s more common than you think…and yes, it can be treated! With June being Men's Health Awareness Month, we wanted to bring awareness to a problem that is commonly misdiagnosed. Men with pelvic pain are almost always misdiagnosed as “prostatitis” and are prescribed rounds of antibiotics even though they do not have an infection. More commonly referred to as Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS) which can present as perineal (pelvic floor) and genital pain. The prevalence of CPPS in the [...]