hey guys it’s Hina Sheth here at rebalance physical therapy and I wanted to talk to you today about why men are having rectal pain testicular pain scrotal pain and all other pain down there in the private area now most most physicians do not realize that there is a group of muscles that could be the culprit of why you guys and you men might be experiencing all these weird symptoms down in the saddle and private regions and you may have gone to a urologist and they did a bunch of tests and they found that you know
there’s no no reason that you might be having this pain you know they might have been such a lab tests and found that you know there’s actually no bacteria or any type of virus or anything like that that’s accounting for the pain that you have maybe they put you on a trial of antibiotics anyway for several weeks or months and nothing has changed and so what might be happening is they might be missing the boat on a group of muscles called your pelvic floor that might be the culprit of your pain and actually
most likely the culprit of your pain so I’m going to give you a little anatomy lesson here and then I’ll tell you why now this is a female pelvic floor model but surprisingly the female anatomy and the male anatomy when it comes to these muscles is actually quite similar so I don’t want you to kind of get distracted that this isn’t a male so this is a model of the pelvis here is your iliac bones but they have the two pelvic bones they meet up in the front to form your pubis bone and then date that in the
back they connect to a triangular bone called your sacrum which is right over here now underneath if you flip this pelvis down below you can see that there’s a group of red muscles that connect from the pubic bone all the way to the sit bones that you sit on and to the tailbone and to the sacrum and this basically expands the saddle area that you sit on okay so you can imagine any type of pressure here is going to create pressure on these muscles now what can happen okay for you males okay these muscles actually basically line
the openings of this pelvis so on a male where you know you would normally have the female so this would be a urethra which is where you pee out of and this is vagina but obviously for males this would be where the pants would actually be and then you have the rectum so you can see if there’s any problems in these muscles okay especially for male with your height of it if you’re experiencing any type of pain it’s likely that these muscles could be really taut and these muscles are strained and they could have cut
bands which are also known as trigger points that could create pain in this area rectum scrotal saddle area and also refer pain into the sexual organs such as the testicles with scrotum the epididymis areas like that and what can happen is it can actually affect you know your release of urine so you might notice that you might have some urinary retention you’re having a hard time you’re having a hard time releasing urine you may even have some constipation have a hard time releasing and having a bowel movement and then you
also might experience all the pain that you feel so oftentimes we hear it feels like there’s a golf ball in my rectum or there feels like there’s something foreign in there or I feel like I’m sitting on a golf ball so those are just some of the symptoms there’s many many more you can also have abdominal pain you might have bladder pain you can feel like you’re having a prostatitis inflammation of the prostate but it’s not really the prostate there’s no true inflammation going on so all of those
symptoms could be a result of tightness in these muscles now what do you do about it well there’s several things that you can do on your own but ideally what you’re going to need to do is see a specialized physical therapist that treats men and treats pelvic floor dysfunction and also knows how the pelvic floor integrated into the pelvis the hip and the low back as well as the mid-back those areas are often areas that all need to be treated together in order to really treat this dysfunction now if you
live in the Philadelphia area you can always call us this is what we specialize in and we are also on the main lines of Philadelphia and we treat this I would say 90% of our day now if you want some self-help tips you can also go to our website it’s rebalance tt calm and on there we have some free reports on what you can start doing yourself to kind of help you with your pain as also lots of other videos and we you can also feel free to email us and let us know what’s going on and we can try and help point you in the right
direction if we feel like we can’t help you or maybe direct you to a physical therapist in your area so I hope this looks helpful and you know here if you’re kind of going crazy trying to figure out what’s going on this is most likely what is going on all right guys so take care I hope you found this helpful and have a great day
