Pudendal Neuralgia | Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments | Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine

Описание: Dr. Allyson Shrikhande, Chief Medical Officer at Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine discusses Pudendal Neuralgia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments at Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine.

Topics discussed include:


Pudendal neuralgia explained

Where it can be felt and experienced, for men and women

Symptoms and location of symptoms, for men and women

Potential causes

How injuries may occur to the pudendal nerve


Dr. Shrikhande is the Chief Medical Officer of Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine. She distilled her global expertise into a minimally invasive, cutting-edge approach to the treatment of pelvic pain and pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. With an extensive background in mainstream clinical medicine, she also makes use of many alternatives, holistic and homeopathic approaches. She has published peer-reviewed articles on the treatment of muscle pain in academic journals and works closely with renowned pelvic pain gynecologists and urologists.

At Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine, our pelvic pain specialists provide a functional, rehab approach to pelvic pain. When you visit one of our offices, you spend an hour with your doctor reviewing in detail your medical history and symptoms. Then, we perform an internal exam (no speculum) to evaluate your nerves and muscles. Together, we'll discuss an individual treatment plan that gets to the root cause of your pain and helps you to feel better. The best part: you can begin treatment the same day!

At PRM, our mission is to decrease the time patients are suffering from pelvic pain symptoms.

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Pudendal Neuralgia Transcript is below:

Pudendal Neuralgia is pain in the distribution of the pudendal nerve and its branches. Pudendal neuralgia can be felt along the sit bones, along the rectum, along the perineum, and along the vaginal area, as well as the testicles and penis in males. Symptoms of pudendal neuralgia are achy, burning, stabbing, sharp, knife-like pains in the distribution of the pudendal nerve, which includes from the sit bones and buttocks, out to the rectum, or perineum, and/or the vaginal area, or the testes and penile area in the men. It's often worse with sitting, as sitting does put pressure on the pudendal nerve, and it can be associated with pain with bowel movements. It is not associated with any sensory loss or sensory deficits.

Potential causes of pudendal neuralgia are anything that can put pressure along the pudendal nerve, from its course from the lower sacral nerve roots, down to the rectum and the vagina. Vaginal childbirth could put pressure on the nerve during delivery. A bladder sling operation can put pressure on the nerve and any other surgery that could cause scar tissue. Entrapment of the pudendal nerve which can come from higher up, from the lumbar sacral plexus, and injuries to the ligaments, where the pudendal nerve courses under.

The pudendal nerve can be injured. The most common way would be a stretch injury. However, the pudendal nerve, in most cases, can heal with time.