{"id":30852,"date":"2025-07-01T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:32:59","slug":"why-men-shouldnt-ignore-their-pelvic-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30852","title":{"rendered":"Why Men Shouldn\u2019t Ignore Their Pelvic Floors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chronic pain, sexual dysfunction and incontinence can all stem from problems with your pelvic floor \u2014 and many men don\u2019t even know they have one.<\/p>\n

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In his early 30s, Chad Woodard spent hours cycling around New York City training for an Ironman triathlon. Around the same time, he began to experience pelvic pain and erectile dysfunction. He never suspected his workouts could be the cause.<\/p>\n

Dr. Woodard, now an assistant professor of physical therapy at Hunter College, had been in practice for several years, but it was only when a urologist asked him if he treated men with pelvic floor dysfunction that he began to educate himself about the pelvic floor<\/a>, an umbrella term for the sling of muscles, ligaments and nerves at the base of the torso that supports the bladder, bowels and reproductive organs.<\/p>\n

When the pelvic floor becomes either overly lax or overly tight in men, it can cause incontinence, sexual dysfunction and pain in the scrotum, rectum or groin.<\/p>\n

Dr. Woodard had heard passing mentions of the pelvic floor during his training, but he had no idea what pelvic floor physical therapy was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pelvic floor treatment isn\u2019t taught in depth in most physical therapy programs, so Dr. Woodard sought out continuing education coursework in pelvic care, and discovered that he himself was suffering from pelvic floor dysfunction.<\/p>\n

After he successfully treated his conditions using the exercises he was learning, he dedicated his practice to helping other men. After treatment, \u201cthey can live their life again,\u201d he said, now more than a decade later.<\/p>\n

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Chronic pain, sexual dysfunction and incontinence can all stem from problems with your pelvic floor \u2014 and many men don\u2019t even know they have one.In his early 30s, Chad Woodard spent hours cycling around New York City training for an Ironman triathlon. Around the same time, he began to experience pelvic pain and erectile dysfunction. He never suspected his workouts could be the cause.Dr. Woodard, now an assistant professor of physical therapy at Hunter College, had been in practice for several years, but it was only when a urologist asked him if he treated men with pelvic floor dysfunction that he began to educate himself about the pelvic floor, an umbrella term for the sling of muscles, ligaments and nerves at the base of the torso that supports the bladder, bowels and reproductive organs.When the pelvic floor becomes either overly lax or overly tight in men, it can cause incontinence, sexual dysfunction and pain in the scrotum, rectum or groin.Dr. Woodard had heard passing mentions of the pelvic floor during his training, but he had no idea what pelvic floor physical therapy was.Pelvic floor treatment isn\u2019t taught in depth in most physical therapy programs, so Dr. Woodard sought out continuing education coursework in pelvic care, and discovered that he himself was suffering from pelvic floor dysfunction.After he successfully treated his conditions using the exercises he was learning, he dedicated his practice to helping other men. After treatment, \u201cthey can live their life again,\u201d he said, now more than a decade later.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30854,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30855,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/30855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}