Pudendal neuralgia exercises on YouTube ???

[Aua.de]

Hello,
I recently searched on YouTube for "pudendal neuralgia exercises" and to my surprise
there are a large number of hits in both German and English.
It is not uncommon for these hits to have been viewed more than 100,000 times.
Before I delve deeper into this, I would like to ask whether anyone here in the forum
can recommend any of the YouTube pudendal neuralgia exercises?

[Violet M]

Are you able to provide a direct youtube link? If I search on the name of your videos, many of them have nothing to do with pudendal neuralgia -- unless I'm doing something wrong.

Violet

[Aua.de]

Hallo Violet,

with the search "pudendus neuralgia exercises" one can find find pretty a lot of these exercises.

Here are three examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7qIM6qknw&t=121s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOyAwj9gENs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Y8lpnhWus

Is it worth the efforts to try them out?
There must be people here in this forum which have expirience with such exercises.

[Violet M]

Ouch, it looks painful for someone like me who had pudendal nerve entrapment. If it didn't cause immediate pain, I think all those stretches would have caused a ton of pain the following day. But that's just my experience. I tried stretches before I had nerve relief surgery and they just didn't work, cause when the nerve is entrapped, it doesn't glide easily. But maybe, for someone who just has a hypertonic pelvic floor causing pudendal neuralgia, the stretches/exercises could be helpful?

Violet

[Aua.de]

Hello,
strange, although many people are interested in the topic,
both here in the forum and on YouTube, there are no reports of experience.

[April]

Hi Aua,

I have the same take on this as Violet. The exercises in the first and third video are ones that I would (even today) not do. (I had decompression surgery, but I have some lingering pain, so I proceed as if I still have a small part of the nerve slightly entrapped.) The second one seemed more innocuous. I think I could do that gentle side to side shifting while standing without an issue. If you are sure you do not have an entrapment, this might be okay. But if you don't know for sure, they do seem risky. I don't think you were looking these up to get exercise ideas, but if you were, I'll mention that swimming (without a frog leg kick) and walking are usually safe choices.

April