Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Has anyone seen Dr. Lawrence Poree in Aptos, CA? I am a male that responds well to dry needling of my pelvic floor muscles to relieve PN pain. These muscles relax for hours/days after dry needling, but eventually begin to spasm and lock afterwards. I have had dry needling done for over a year now, and believe if I could get the effect of dry needling to last weeks/months, my nervous system may be able to realize that the spasming is not the norm.

At this point, I am willing to give it a go. Dr. Hibner (where I live) is willing to work w/ my PT to establish a male protocol, but I'd rather tyr someone who has done this many times before me Stephanie Prendergast's clinic also recommended Dr. Poree. Any thoughts?

I'm curious about this myself. Do you know specifically what muscle/s they inject? I'm wondering if there's a risk of subsequent urinary incontinence if the muscles are too relaxed...

Hey Stressly,

I specifically need to have my levator ani muscles taken care of, but I believe that all the surrounding muscles will have to be addressed at some level to maintain a balance. I can actually visualize my puborectalis based on the tailbone and pubis symphisis pain I am having right now. It all goes away after my PT does dry needling, which hits the pelvic floor, levator ani, OI and superficial perineum. The problem is that it does not maintain this effect for a long period of time, and after a year of dry needling, I want to up my treatment for a more long term approach.

I don't want to have urinary or fecal incontinence, but botox has a finite lifespan, so I may be willing to take the risk.

AZ, I haven't been to Dr. Poree but on the old forum there was a woman who recommended him -- so the best I can say is I haven't heard anything bad about him at least.

Karen Weissner who posts on TIPNA.org from time to time sees Porree often and loves him. I'm sure she would be willing to share her knowledge about him.