Anyone here with a collapsed pelvic floor?

[Tetro]

Does anyone here have a collapsed, dropped, weakened pelvic floor, or descending perineum? This condition would seem to go hand in hand with CPPS in some cases.

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This condition would seem to go hand in hand with CPPS in some cases.

First time I've heard of it. Seems to be associated with constipation.

Perineal descent is a phenomenon associated with constipation, and it is considered to be the last stage of excessive straining for defecation over several years. Such abnormally increased perineal descent was observed by Porter in 1962 for the first time, and afterward, it was accepted as a definite entity by Parks et al. in 1966, and it was described as a relaxed pelvic floor in chronic constipation patients.

[Tetro]

In the past, the representative disease causing pelvic outlet obstruction was anismus; it is a concept referring to entire dyschezia and has been mixed with terms such as pelvic floor dyssynergia, spastic pelvic floor syndrome, paradoxical puborectalis contraction, rectoanal dyssynergia, and nonrelaxing puborectalis syndrome [from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017974 ]

I've seen people with pelvic floor descent/collapse complain of very similar pelvic pain symptoms as people with CPPS, mostly women, but a few men too. It also affects defecation and colon function. I wonder if some symptoms of CPPS could be attributed to pelvic floor descent, especially people with weak ejaculation, stress incontinence and trouble with passing stool. Perhaps a test to measure pelvic descent should be recommended for men with these symptoms along with other testing, this could be another case of doctors thinking this is almost exclusively a female problem and not even considering this in men with pelvic pain, like a few of these men are experiencing http://www.ibsgroup.org/forums/topic/14 ... vic-floor/

It might help explain why a portion of men aren't experiencing relief after years with the standard protocols