hey guys it’s Hina Sheth here at rebalance physical therapy and wellness in Center City Philadelphia as well as on the main line in Narberth Pennsylvania and I’m a orthopedic and pelvic floor physical therapist that treats with a functional medicine kind of integrative holistic way to get our clients that are having hip pelvic and hip pelvis and spine issues to get them better and get them moving on the right so today I want to address those of you who might be experiencing issues with intercourse where your partner and
specifically this is for females where you are a partner if they’re trying to have intercourse with you and achieve penetration but they’re feeling like there’s a block and they can’t get any further while you’re trying to have intercourse and so I recently had someone basically asked this question can you help me my partner feels like he’s trying to enter inside of me but he only gets so far and feels like there’s just a wall and it’s it’s a little bit uncomfortable but you know or it or it
is significantly uncomfortable and can you help me and you know what could be going on so for any of you who might be experienced something like this this is a very potentially a classic case of something called vaginismus so for this particular client she had actually gone to her GYN and she’d seen a couple of other providers and they basically said well we’re not really sure what’s going on and we’re not sure why you’re having a hard time with even gynecologic exams so that was kind of the thing that kind
of tied this all together is that they’re not sure why she was having a hard time even having a pap smear or having a gynecologic exam and they weren’t really sure why her partner couldn’t enter fully inside during intercourse so what is vaginismus so basically vaginismus is just a fancy medical term to mean spasming of the muscles inside your vagina so if you didn’t know you had muscles in your vagina well now you do okay you have muscles in your vagina and in your pelvis um and these muscles just
like any other muscles they contract and they can relax and sometimes these muscles can become spasmed and tight and I’m going to show you a photo here this is a picture of the pelvis okay from the tops if you’re looking on top through the pelvis and you take all the organs and everything out you’re gonna see a bunch of muscles here in red and this is called your pelvic floor I’m not gonna go into the full description of what your pelvic floor is because I have other videos that you can watch about
the pelvic floor but basically those muscles if you look at them over here this right here is where your vagina is this is your rectum so you can see if they’re spasming in these muscles it’s gonna make these holes smaller okay and it’s not gonna let anything enter okay so this is why you might be having difficulty or why your partner might be having difficulty entering inside of you and also why someone can’t get a speculum inside of you because it feels too uncomfortable it feels like it’s too
tight okay because you’ve got spasming of these muscles and we see this every day at our clinic okay people have tight spasm muscles and that doesn’t allow for a good gynecologic exam doesn’t allow for good sex either so if you guys are experiencing something like this and you’re not quite sure what’s going on and what might be happening okay if you’ve seen your gynecologist and they’ve kind of rolled everything out this is probably most likely highly likely that this is what’s going on and
these muscles basically just they need to be worked on they need to be released and there’s a lot there’s different treatment options that we actually use to actually improve the spasm of these muscles and so leave at our clinic many of us have been doing this for fifteen to twenty years so just goes to show you that you know this is something that many many women actually deal with it’s actually 30% of the population have some sort of issue with these muscles so that’s a lot that’s one in every three
women so I want you to know you’re not alone if you are experiencing this type of issue and you live in and around the Philadelphia area and surrounding suburbs or perhaps you don’t but you would like to come see us then jump on to our website it’s a no brainer rebalance PT comm that’s our EB a LAN C EPT comm we have lots of other helpful YouTube videos we’re on Facebook we have blog and use letters so sign up for those lots of great information to just further explain what might be going on
and we see lots of success with this particular diagnosis so I hope that helps many of you who got who are having issues with this and feel that hey this is me this is exactly me and this is what’s going on so you know now what could be going on so I hope you have a wonderful day take care
