What is the pudendal nerve?

The pudendal nerve begins at the lower back, called the sacral area and, as it moves down, is divided into three separate parts or branches. Every branch helps to provide an important feeling and function. One branch is influenced by the rectum, the other affects the genitals and most of the feelings involved in sexual pleasure, and the third branch adds a feeling of perineum or area located between vaginal opening or testicles and anal opening.

Some may be familiar with the pudendal nerve, because in childbirth it is one of the possibilities of controlling the pain of the pudendal nerve block that creates anesthesia or loss of sensation in the genital area and other regions. Some midwives and anesthesiologists may prefer the epidural block depending on the circumstances. The epidural is far more common than the pudendal block, but in some scenarios and delivery there are certainly hints for pudendal blocks.

It is an influence on the areas it affects. Things such as orgasm are largely associated with the function of the pudendal nerve, and some people with nerve damaged could also have problems with the bowel movement, develop constipation or have problems with the bladder. In some cases, however, the pudendal block may be desirable strategy of pain treatment if it addresses serious and significant pain in the genital area. Such blocks are not only for delivery and can be used to diagnose pudendal nerve damage that results in pain.

In some cases, birth or other injuries may directly affect the nerve. This is often short -term damage and the main symptom may be a loss of feeling. This degree of loss of sensation varies, but it may affect the function of sexual and intestinal movement. Alternately damage to the nerve or any scenario that compresses nerve, can lead to pain and discomfort in different parts of the pelvis. It can be known as capturing the pudendal nerve and it could have a minT result in very painful pudendal neuropathy.

Pudendal neuropathy is considered to be a demanding condition for treatment and diagnosis is not always immediate unless a clear cause of injury is present. The main symptoms of this condition are pain in one or more genital areas that innervate the nerves. One useful diagnostics after the possible causes of compression from things, such as cysts or tumors, is the pudendal block, as the complete stopping of the pain would indicate the involvement of the nerve. Once the diagnosis is achieved, people have several treatment options, but the overall treatment is achieved only in about half of the cases and many people have to resort to more pain management strategies to control this condition. It is lucky that the condition is rare and many people who have slight damage to the pudendal nerve (as of childbirth) will recover full and never continue to develop neuropathy.