Case perspective
How a typical case of pelvic nerve sexual dysfunction unfolds — from first symptom to a named diagnosis — in the practice of Prof. Dr Renaud Bollens.
Because the pudendal nerve supplies genital sensation, its irritation can produce numbness, hypersensitivity, pain during or after intercourse, and persistent unwanted arousal.
These symptoms are widely under-reported by patients and under-asked by clinicians. Naming them is the first step to explaining them.
Our consultations cover sexual symptoms explicitly and discreetly, because they carry diagnostic weight rather than being an embarrassing side note.
Every case at Pelvic Institute is assessed by the operating surgeon, with more than 600 pelvic procedures behind that judgment.