Pelvic floor physical therapists do not feel qualified based on the training.
When it comes to physical therapy training in male pelvic floor dysfunction, we are facing a multifactorial problem. They look for one…and discover that they need to see a “Woman’s Health” physical therapist?!? As if this isn’t bad enough, men then find out that many of these physical therapists do not treat men. They discover they need pelvic floor physical therapy. Men turn to Google University and usually self-diagnose themselves with pudendal neuralgia, nonbacterial chronic prostatitis, or CPPS. Painful bowel movements or delayed genital/bladder pain after bowel movementsĬPPS symptoms drive men to the urologist.1Ĩ.2% of men will experience prostatitis-like symptoms at some point in their lives, and greater than 90% of those men will have symptoms consistent with chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). The Situation Room: Why do men have to see Women’s Health Physical Therapists?ġ5% of adult men worldwide suffer from pelvic pain. By Stephanie Prendergast, MPT, Cofounder, PHRC Los Angeles