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Simon's patient is training toward receptive intercourse and has maxed out the entire dilator set, with a gap left to his partner and real medical trauma underneath, a sphincterotomy and a Botox injection that went badly. Steven treats the dilator as graded rehab, not a ruler, bridges with a toy matched to the partner, and deliberately defers a separate, harder fistulotomy case for a full Tribe write-up.

dilator-therapyreceptive-intercoursemedical-traumatissue-healingnervous-systemwhen-to-refer23 min

Steven and Erika L take 'orgasm isn't ejaculation' into the hard cases, the man who finishes too fast, the one who can't finish, the one whose pleasure has narrowed to a screen. The reframe they keep circling is that the real O is oxytocin, and that pleasure is mapped across the whole body, erectile tissue in the nose, orgasm reportable from the collarbone.

sexual-functiondelayed-ejaculationpremature-ejaculationsensory-retrainingoxytocinpatient-education14 min

Guest teacher Erika L opens on a fifty-six-year-old who asked whether men even have a pelvic floor, then pulls apart the two things almost everyone fuses, orgasm and ejaculation. They ride on three separate systems, and the proof is men after prostate-cancer treatment reporting some of the best orgasms of their lives with no ejaculate at all.

sexual-functionorgasmejaculationpost-prostatectomymale-anatomypatient-education15 min

Steven runs the male pelvic-floor exam most of us were never taught, the visual one, on a minimal cue of just 'can you squeeze your pelvic floor.' His frame is three contractions you watch for before you ever go internal, P, T and A, penile, testicular and anal, with a softly held Oxford-style scale to track them climbing.

male-pelvic-floorassessmentvisual-rompost-prostatectomygrading-scalespatient-cueing20 min

Erica's professor has had left-sided pain at the base of the penis a day or two after ejaculating for thirty years. Steven resists the obvious pelvic-floor answer and follows the real driver, the spine, with posture correction during sex.

sexual-functionejaculationmale-pelvic-painsomaticassessment14 min

Rick's truck-driver patient has deep inguinal pain after an appendectomy that simply will not reproduce on the table. Steven works it with pain logs, Carnett's sign for nerve entrapment, and the surgery date that points neural over tissue.

male-pelvic-painneural-entrapmentpost-surgicalassessmentsomatic17 min

Katie brings a man whose cancer surgery left no internal access, leaking constantly yet unable to urinate after overdoing his exercises into the ER. Watch Steven and Erica sequence it from the outside, voiding before continence, with dignity first.

post-prostatectomyvoiding-dysfunctioncontinencemale-pelvic-painpelvic-floor22 min

Steven builds a reusable spine for the dreaded second visit, the Back Pocket Tracker, so you reassess on rails instead of shot-gunning treatment. Five sections in order, plus the psychosocial read that stops a slow case from reading as your failure.

male-pelvic-painassessmentreassessmentpsychosocialpelvic-floor18 min

The room gathers around Rick's vulnerable question after prostate surgery, am I doing it wrong, as his erections are not coming back the way he hoped. Steven explains the mechanics of the pump and ring and when to refer the vascular questions on, and Niva reframes recovery as building safety and positive sensation, not chasing performance.

post-prostatectomysexual-functionmale-pelvic-painwhen-to-referpsychosocialpatient-education17 min

A young man's frequency case is stuck at six sessions and the treating clinician feels lost, so the Tribe does the least glamorous thing in pelvic care and reads a three-day bladder diary. The numbers, a roughly 500-milliliter max but a 232 average, reframe a mystery as a sensory storage problem with a timed-voiding plan, while Niva keeps asking what set the fire at twenty.

lutsbladder-diarystoragevoidingassessmentpsychosocial14 min

Two live male cases that reward looking one room over from the obvious target. An 84-year-old man's urine stream got stronger when Niva treated his gas, not his bladder, and a man in his thirties with urethral pain gets worked up with the penile slump test that Steven walks through step by step.

lutsvoidingbowelmale-pelvic-painneural-tensionslump-test18 min

Jean asks the practical question, when you check the spine what does that actually mean, and the room gets specific about thoracic versus lumbar and where pain points you. Steven's same-day case lands it: a man who had not crossed his leg pain-free in about a year and a half does it after one seated thoracic-lumbar extension, plus Laura's nursing-home bowel protocol of sit-to-stands and trunk rotation.

spineassessmentbowelmale-pelvic-painneural-tensionrange-of-motion18 min

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