In this podcast, I will discuss how anxiety can cause a reflex contraction of the muscles in the pelvis floor, and if one is anxious and worries regularly, this worry can produce a chronic contraction of the muscles of the pelvis that stays contracted. I believe this pelvic tightening is a physical reflex in a certain group of the population, and over time this contraction doesn’t resolve back into relaxed tissue.
Many sufferers of chronic pelvic pain syndrome are told that they looked fine. To be told that you don’t look like you have a problem when you are suffering greatly, often leaves you feeling frightened, lost with nowhere to go and catastrophizing about the future.
This episode discusses how giving drugs for pelvic pain is a band aid to the problem and why eventually this attempted solution fails.