Case perspective
How a typical case of pelvic floor physiotherapy nerve pain unfolds — from first symptom to a named diagnosis — in the practice of Prof. Dr Renaud Bollens.
Well-directed pelvic floor physiotherapy is valuable and, for many patients, sufficient. For a compressed nerve, however, it manages the consequences rather than the cause.
The most effective plans combine both: physiotherapy to address secondary muscle guarding, and a surgical opinion to address a mechanical compression when one is present.
We coordinate with local physiotherapists in the patient's own city, including New York, so care continues between and after appointments.
Every case at Pelvic Institute is assessed by the operating surgeon, with more than 600 pelvic procedures behind that judgment.