Pelvic floor physiotherapy is a very important part of Men ‘s Health. However, physiotherapy is not very well-known for Men ‘s Health because theres a big taboo around pelvic floor problems. Nevertheless, pelvic floor physiotherapy is painless and it’s a key part in the treatment of certain conditions affecting men from all ages.
Find the most common problems of Men’s health solved with pelvic floor physiotherapy:
- Oncological prostatic procedures
- Urological problems
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Intimacy problems
- Coloproctology
Oncological prostatic procedures
Pelvic floorphysiotherapy is a great tool to prevent and to treat men’s health problems linked to prostate interventions.
Unfortunately, 1 of 8 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Assessing the pelvic floor ensure a faster recovery. The post surgical treatment aims to trengthen the pelvic floor. During the physiotherapy sessions we focus in pain and swelling management, removal of the scar adherences and enhance the recovery. Prostatectomy secondary effect as incontinence and erectile dysfunction can be prevented an treated with pelvic floor physiotherapy.
Physiotherapy for pelvic floor increase the level of Men’s Health before, during and after an oncological treatment.
Erectile dysfunction and incontinence are secondary effects of the treatments for prostate cancer. Stronger pelvic floor muscles make men more unlikely to suffer from incontinence and erectile dysfunction in the long term. This improve the quality of life after the impact of the cancer the diagnosis.
Urological problems:
Different symtoms as incontinence, nocturia , intermitent miction or urinary hesitation are a call of attention from your pelvic floor. All these are signals of pelvic floor dysfunctions.
Due to tension or lack of strenght, the pelvic floor muscles stop working as properly as they should. As one of the pelvic floor functions is the continence, when the pelvic floor is not doing Men start having problems with urination. When the pelvic floor dysfunction is stablished the urological problems start appearing. Pelvic floor dysfunctions are sorted out with the proper assessment from a physiotherapist specialized in pelvic floor rehabilitation.
Chronic pelvic pain
Patients might have found this diagnosis after a while of suffering from pain/heaviness/burning around the pelvis. Patients might have been diagnosed with prostatitis, chronic bacterial prostatitis, asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis, orchalgia, intestitial cystitits, levator ani syndrome, pudendal neuralgia, proctalgia fugax… there’s plenty of conditions linked to the dysfunction of the pelvic floor muscles.
Chronic pelvic pain includes many different symptoms affecting men’s quality of life
Pelvic floor rehabilitation can help patients to deal with pelvic pain symptoms until forget about them completely.
Once you start having any kind of uro-genital symptom the most important thing is to visit your doctor. Your urologist should rule out any underlying condition. Men diagnosed with chronic pelvic pain usually have visited tons of departments. After years of consultations without finding any physical sign to expain their symtoms they are diagnosed with “chronic pelvic pain”. Unfortunately, the pelvic floor muscles are forgotten during urological assessments. However, the treatment of this part of the pelvis is a game changer.
Pelvic floor physiotherapy is a great tool in Men’s health for chronic pelvic pain.
Read more about Chronic pelvic pain in this article.
The number of sessions needed will depend on each person. The objective of the physiotherapy sessions will be always the same “make you independent of any therapy”.
Feel free to contact if you prefer to be sure about how can this therapy help you.
Intimacy problems
Erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation are one of the biggest concern of male population. However, it’s difficult to find a proper treatment because the pelvic floor dysfunctions are infradiagnosed.
Even if the prevalence is higher than thought, lots of men struggle to find solutions to this problem. Medication can be a temporary solution for erectile dysfunction. However, the treatment of the pelvic floor muscles will give you tools to definitely forget about the problems related with intimacy.
Due to the location of the pelvic floor muscles, the proper function after directly the sexual health of men of every age. That’s why its important to asess the pelvic floor muscles when a patient start to face symptoms of premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction
Pelvic floor physiotherapy help men to control the muscles improving sexual health.
The muscles of the pelvic floor role an key part in the mechanism of the erection and the ejaculation. If the pelvic floor muscles are too tight or they dont have strenght enough the blood flow will not be sufficient to start or to keep an erection. For the same reason, the muscles can increase the sensitivity of the area afecting the moment of the ejaculation.
Culturally, to deal with this kind of problems is a big taboo for a lot of men. Nevertheless, the sessions make feel confident patients with different backrounds as for everybody is difficult to share about intimacy problems.
Coloproctology
Pelvic floor rehabilitation can help men with diverse proctological problems.
Proctologist and Gastroenterologist refer the patients to do physiotherapy in different cases. The most common situations are constipation, incomplete voiding, hemorroids and fecal incontinence.
Pelvic floor physiotherapy for men increase the control of the muscles causing proctological problems.
During the coloproctology sessions, the pelvic floor and the abdomen are asessed to start the reeducation. Patients will receive therapy and also get homework from the first session. Constancy is very important to solve this kind of problems and thats why the work at home it’s a must.
… if you are dealing with something that is not mentioned here but you think the problem is your pelvic floor contact here. We can share a chat to see if physiotherapy is the solution that you are looking for.