Dyspareunia in pelvic ring in women

Pelvic floor rehabilitation in the treatment of dyspareunia in women

Dyspareunia in women.

Dyspareunia is recurrent or persistent pain with sexual activity that causes marked distress or interpersonal conflict. It affects approximately 10% to 20% of U.S. women. Dyspareunia can have a significant impact on a woman's mental and physical health, body image, relationships with partners, and efforts to conceive. The patient history should be taken in a nonjudgmental way and progress from ...

Dyspareunia in Puerto Rican middle-aged women.

OBJECTIVE Dyspareunia is a common sexual dysfunction. There is a lack of studies that address female sexual dysfunction in Puerto Rico. The present cross-sectional study characterized dyspareunia in a sample of Puerto Rican women aged 40 to 59 years and evaluated the relationship between reported dyspareunia with demographic, lifestyle, and health factors. METHODS Nine hundred twenty Puerto R...

Dyspareunia associated with a pelvic digit

A pelvic digit is a rare congenital anomaly and often an incidental radiographic finding. Here we present the first reported case of a 57-year-old Caucasian female with a pelvic digit and a chief complaint of dyspareunia. Radiographic studies and magnetic resonance imaging confirmed a stable bony excrescence from the inferior left ischium impinging on the pelvic floor. The patient underwent sur...

The Causes of Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women

Chronic pelvic pain probably is a symptom most frequently complained of by women to a gynecologist.  Too frequently this leads to a laparatomy from whkh either no benefit is derived, or the pain is actually made worse.  The purpose of thls paper is to reevaluate the cause and etiology of chronic pelivc pain, not only to save unnecessary and expensive surgery, but most effectively to rid the p...