Heal Pelvic Pain

Bronze Medal Winner of a 2009 National Health Information Award Stop your pelvic pain . . . naturally! If you suffer from an agonizing and emotionally stressful pelvic floor disorder, including pelvic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, prostatitis, incontinence, or discomfort during sex, urination, or bowel movements, it's time to alleviate your symptoms and start healing--without drugs or surgery. Natural cures, in the form of exercise, nutrition, massage, and self-care therapy, focus on the underlying cause of your pain, heal your condition, and stop your pain forever. The life-changing plan in this book gets to the root of your disorder with: A stretching, muscle-strengthening, and massage program you can do at home Guidelines on foods that will ease your discomfort Suggestions for stress- and pain-reducing home spa treatments Exercises for building core strength and enhancing sexual pleasure

Pregnancy weakens the ligaments that keep the pelvic bones together. If those weakened ligaments become overloaded or injured, it results in pelvic instability — pain around the joints that can be brief or last for years after the birth. In 1996, Cecile Röst, who suffered from this condition herself, devised a treatment program that is simple, home based, and proven to work. Her book, with over 100 illustrations and detailed testimonials, is divided into two parts. The first part shows simple exercises for symmetry and stabilization, and the proper way to lie, sit, and get out of a car in order to prevent pelvic instability during pregnancy. Patients can practice these exercises and positions with or without a care provider’s help. Part two, aimed at care providers, shows the results of a survey carried out among 200 women suffering from pelvic complaints. Here the author also presents a theoretical treatise of pelvic pain, the protocol of the first consult, and the contents of the therapy, including a sports program.

Based on the gold-standard nondrug, nonsurgical Wise-Anderson Protocol for treating chronic pelvic pain, A Headache in the Pelvis is the definitive resource for anyone suffering from pelvic pain. Pelvic pain afflicts millions of men and women and goes by many names, including pelvic floor dysfunction and prostatitis. David Wise, Ph.D., searched for relief for his pelvic pain for more than 20 years. After researching medical journals and performing outside-the-box self-experimentation, he found a way to resolve his symptoms. He then joined forces with Stanford urologist Dr. Rodney Anderson in the mid-1990s, and together they treated patients and did research on what is now called the Wise-Anderson Protocol. Often incorrectly diagnosed, debilitating, and disruptive, pelvic pain is correlated with psychological distress. Using a holistic treatment integrating physical therapy and meditative relaxation, this book guides you through understanding your pain, why conventional treatments haven't worked, and describes the details of the physical and behavioral protocol that can help to heal the painful pelvic floor. At last, this life-changing protocol offers hope and help to lead a pain-free life.

Pelvic pain is more ubiquitous than most people think and yet many suffer in silence because they don't know there is help or they are too embarrassed to seek it. This book looks at the variety of problems that can lead to pelvic pain, and how to address the issues when they arise.

Take Control of Your Interstitial Cystitis Treatment with this Comprehensive Guide! Interstitial cystitis (IC), also called painful bladder syndrome, is a complex bladder pain condition that can be confusing, frustrating, and debilitating. Successful treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach that often features a combination of medication, physical therapy, dietary and lifestyle changes, alternative medicine, and more. The Interstitial Cystitis Solution has all the information you need, all in one place. It provides scientific reviews and evaluations of potential treatments, along with a helpful treatment plan tailored to your specific symptoms and lifestyle. The information is presented in an accessible way, with real-life examples from the author, who has treated hundreds of patients who have found relief from their symptoms with the holistic treatment plan outlined in this book. This comprehensive guide allows you to take control of your healing and will restore sanity to the insane world of conflicting diagnoses, treatments, and advice.

Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS, Physiotherapist and men's pelvic health expert, has written the ultimate self-help guide for men suffering from pelvic pain, sexual pain, or recovering from prostatectomy surgery. In this unique book, Ms. Herrera delivers the goods, sharing her trade secrets with you, putting you on the right track towards a pain-free lifestyle. This manual will teach you how to see and treat your pelvic floor muscles in a different way opening the door to health and well-being.Ending Male Pelvic Pain will awaken the healer within you, putting you on the road to a fast recovery. Ms. Herrera does not hold back, instead she empowers you with the knowledge you need to defeat your pain.The large selection of techniques in this book are based on Ms. Herrera's real-life experience in treating men at her NYC based pelvic rehab healing center, Renew Physical Therapy. This multi-keyed book fuses yoga, Pilates, internal massage, visualizations, trigger point therapy, and self-care tools, ensuring that there is something for every man who has suffered long enough with pelvic pain, testicular pain, penile pain, and conditions relating to urinary leaking. In this book Ms. Herrera shows you how she helped countless men get on a path to self healing, ultimately breaking the cycle of pain.With this book Ms. Herrera is declaring a revolution, stating "I have given you the tools you need. Don't hesitate to get started, end your pain and be the hero of your own story".More information at www.RenewPT.com or www.EndingMalePelvicPain.com.

Men with pelvic pain, suffer no more. In Pelvic Pain The Ultimate Cock Block, Dr. Susie Gronski blends cutting edge research with practical advice that you can put into practice right away wherever you are on your journey through pelvic pain. In addition to the biological underpinnings of pain, this edition is more psychologically informed for a well-rounded picture of health that empowers you toward self-guided healing. In this updated version, you'll find more on: why some common assumptions about pain are completely false how the nerves, the gut and the immune system come into play why reframing your pain perspective is key to feeling better how simple mindful practices and breathing can modulate pain how to use movement and non-painful touch to turn down pain sensitivity Perhaps your current experience sounds something like this... You woke up one morning expecting a hard on, but instead all you felt was dick pain. You were sure it would go away eventually. Now you're not so sure. You've seen specialist after specialist, done every test known to man, scoured Google MD searching for the 'cure', spent a don't-dare-look amount of cash on medications, supplements and diets. But here you are years later, still dealing with it. With well over a decade in physical therapy specializing in men's sexual and pelvic health, Dr. Susie Gronski has written the essential guide to chronic pelvic pain, incorporating the latest in pain research, so that you can address your experience of pelvic pain without the fear, confusion and hopelessness you may have come to know. Don't wait for the pain to go away to start doing the things you love. Embrace where you are and get back to doing all those things you may have given up for fear it will hurt. There is hope for your pain to change. This book will show you how.

This groundbreaking book describes the Wise-Anderson Protocol for muscle-related pelvic pain in men and women, a new and revolutionary treatment developed at Stanford University. The Wise-Anderson Protocol involves the treatment of muscle-related pelvic pain and dysfunction, variously diagnosed as prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic floor myalgia, interstitial cystitis, urethral syndrome, levator ani syndrome, among other related diagnoses affecting some twenty million men and women in the United States. Specifically, The 6th edition of A Headache in the Pelvis adds new research recently published in the Journal of Urology done by the Wise-Anderson team describing the relationship of painful trigger points that refer and re-create specific symptoms of pelvic pain, new research done at Stanford on the relationship between early morning anxiety and those with pelvic pain, and firsthand stories from people who have undergone the Wise-Anderson Protocol, along with other new sections.