Chronic pelvic pain and physical therapy

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As 2018 is approaching, new challenges, opportunities, ambitions, connections and dreams begin to take form ! New Year means new things in life either good or bad. We reflect from the past and we plan for the future. Anything new is welcome ! I hope that everyone finds true meaning for the new year as we leave 2017 behind us.

This last blog is based on Male Pelvic Pain.

Few months ago I completed a very informative course on Mens Health and Pelvic Pain. It was  instructed by Ruth Jones and introduced by Gerard Greene.

Chronic Idiopathic Pelvic pain in men is very common and if left untreated can cause serious issues in their life quality. Likely physiotherapy can help to treat pelvic related symptoms and encourage this population to take in charge of their situation through certain exercise and pain relieving techniques.

Physiotherapy including manual therapy, stretching and strengthening exercise, biofeedback and neuromodulation can help at alleviating chronic pelvic pain in male population. According to Masterson et al. 2017, the above modalities leave promising results for further facilitation of idiopathic pelvic pain for men experiencing it more than 3 months.

Specifically they have included 10 men with no history of prostatitis, trauma, infection, epididymitis or post urinary incontinence and prostatectomy. From these 50% showed statistically significant improvements with the above interventions based on GUPI ( Genitourinary pain index ) which is the modified NIH - CPSI ( National Institude of Health - Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index ).

Despite the above results, further research is needed to identify which subgroup of men with CPPS can benefit the most from the above type of treatment.

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Art.