Male Care
This clinic does focus on treating those who identify as male, for certain conditions.
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Digestive Issues: These are treated for men the same way they are for women, so refer to the digestive issues tab. Treating all patients.
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Pelvic Pain: men can have testes pain from the inguinal canal and the ilioinguinal nerve and spermatic cord getting restricted . We can treat that, often with good success rates. Most men feel improvement by the 6th visit. We have good results with post hernia pain (including repair), pudendal neuralgia, and hip pain. We will always keep you as draped as possible, working with gloves, just as we do for patients who identify as female or nonbinary. Please note, the pain source of penile and testes pain is usually a nerve or fascial restriction causing referred pain. We do not do penile massage, rather we do very targeted manual therapy to the source of the pain, treating as we both agree is helpful. We will carefully dialogue about what we will treat each session.
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Pudendal Neuralgia: men who do a lot of cycling are at particular risk for pudendal neuralgia from compressing the pudendal nerve between the narrow bony pelvis that men carry and the bike seat. Pudendal neuralgia is not a quick fix, but we can work to specifically decompress the structures which house the pudendal nerve, do neural glides, decrease global neural tension, and get you back to what you love.
​Bladder issues: Urgency and frequency often respond well to strengthening and manual therapy. I do treat standard urinary urgency in all genders. However, I am not taking post-prostatectomy and post prostate cancer/radiation issues at this time, as I have shifted away from this focus. I can help pain from chronic prostatitis in all patients who have a prostate, regardless of identification, as that is a pain issue, and I specialize in pain syndromes.
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Erectile Function: I am only treating ED issues related to pain, pelvic muscle weakness, or tissue restriction. Much erectile function is determined by overall vascular and cardiac health status, which is not a PT issue. However, some is part of a result post surgery, post injury, from nerve entrapment, etc. Those cases respond well.
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Post hernia repair or post vasectomy: With scarring from surgery and the sequella of issues, patients with these two diagnoses seem to respond well to a 6 visit course of therapy. I am treating all patients for these issues, which do not require direct penile work, and we will use draping to only expose needed tissues
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Anal Pain: Anal tearing can occur from passing a too large stool, or sometimes as a sequella of sexual activity. Recurrent fissures are incredibly painful and can lessen the quality of life. We can help you with these issues, in conjuction with topical agents.
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If you have questions, please do the paperwork, so I can review your case and follow up with you. I'm happy to dialogue with you about if this is the right clnic for you after reviewing paperwork.
