Pelvic floor dyssynergia entities

Clinic

• The external anal sphincter, which is part of the pelvic floor normally stays tightly closed to prevent leakage. When you try to have a bowel movement, however, this sphincter has to open to allow the fecal material to come out. Some people have trouble relaxing the sphincter muscle when they are straining to have a bowel movement, or they may actually squeeze the sphincter more tightly shut when straining. This produces symptoms of constipation.Pelvic floor dysfunction is a term used for a variety of disorders that occur when pelvic floor muscles and ligaments are impaired.
• It affects up to 50% of women who have given birth. Although up to 16% of men are affected as well.

Symptoms

• Pelvic pain, pressure
• Dyspareunia (Pain during sex)
• Urinary incontinence (UI)
• Overactive bladder
• Bowel incontinence
• Incomplete emptying of feces
• Constipation
• Myofascial pelvic pain
• Pelvic organ prolapse

Subtypes

• Detrusor Sphincter Dyssynergia (DSD)