Evidence and experience
What the evidence and two decades of surgical experience say about pelvic floor physiotherapy nerve pain.
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.
Dr Bollens is a professor of urology, a proctor in pelvic surgery and a published author on pudendal neuralgia.