Pain With Bowel Movements | Dr Ahmed | Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Tayyaba Ahmed of the Great Neck, Long Island location discusses pain with bowel movements and how to treat it.
Topics discussed include:
Common symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction
When pain with bowel movements can occur
Possible causes of pain with bowel movements
Dr. Tayyaba Ahmed completed the BS/DO program at New York Institute of Technology and was trained at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Northwell Health Plainview Hospital and the NYU Langone Medical Center/RUSK Institute for Rehabilitation. A board-certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician, Dr. Ahmed is also a fellow of the Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a member of the International Pelvic Pain Society.
At Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine, our pelvic pain specialists provide a functional, rehab approach to pelvic pain. When you visit one of our offices, you spend an hour with your doctor reviewing in detail your medical history and symptoms. Then, we perform an internal exam (no speculum) to evaluate your nerves and muscles. Together, we'll discuss an individual treatment plan that gets to the root cause of your pain and helps you to feel better. The best part: you can begin treatment the same day!
At PRM, our mission is to decrease the time patients are suffering from pelvic pain symptoms.
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Many of our patients at Pelvic Rehabilitation have a pelvic floor dysfunction. Common symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction include pain with bowel movements. Having pelvic pain with bowel movements is not normal. One of the biggest taboos in all of life is talking about bowel movements. We often speak about urinating, we speak about eating, but we never talk about pooping, how we poop, how often we poop. And I find out on a daily basis that some people consider pooping twice a week as normal and that's absolutely not true. Very often people feel if they do have a bowel movement every day that they are not constipated. Having a bowel movement daily does not necessarily mean that they are not constipated. Pain with bowel movements can happen during the bowel movement, it can happen after the bowel movement, it can happen before the bowel movement.
Where people who are suffering with pelvic floor dysfunction they typically present with chronic constipation or acute constipation. We often counsel our patients who have painful bowel movements about the proper etiquette to defecating as well as different nutritional substances they can take to improve their stool consistency. Part of counseling patients for painful bowel movements is also counseling for the cause of painful bowel movements. Oftentimes we find out from patients that this is something that's been going on for years stemming from their childhood. We find that patients who have painful bowel movements typically have different causes. In some patients the cause could be something as complex as endometriosis, in other patients it could be puborectalis dyssynergia. Finding the appropriate cause will help the treatment.