Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Laura, very interesting. I will bring this up with the Northwestern folks next week, ie., that the urges have also effected people in their urinating, not just defecating. And, like you, Northwestern has asked me to go at set times each day insteand of obsessing about it all day long. This takes awa...

Violet, they are basically trying Cognitive Behavior Therapy on me and asking me to learn when to recognize a "real urge" to have a BM. This means not responding to every little sensation in my rectum and then trying to go have a BM. Most of the time this attempts involve constant strainin...

I am in a program at Northwestern University in Chicago where they are training me to ignore the urge, that it is really a false signal, as oft-times when I attempt to go again after a BM there is nothing left to go. They are telling me we have to re-train the brain-gut signal so that this sensation...

I was cured by Pudendal nerve entrapment from an uncomfortable bike seat from long distance bike riding. It was a PT in the suburbs of Chicago who did extensive manipulation and who also gave me certain stretching exercises.

I am a new member. Greetings everyone. I wanted to throw this out there. I am currently being treated for Tenesmus, or Hyper-defecation. Some docs also interpret this as incomplete evacuation, but it is more of an issue with the brain-gut connection mis-firing. And it is the pudendal nerve that is i...