Pelvic floor muscle strain (pubic muscle)

[Ant233]

Hello everyone,

My nightmare started in September 2018, when during maintenance at the vessel I was working, I was asked by the pumpman to assist him in lifting a ballast ventilation head. I was inexperienced and I didn't know how much heavy it was. When we lifted it and tried to put it on our right side, I opened a little bit my feet and the I felt a sharp pain in the pelvis and then I gave up and left the object. The pain was permanent for at least a weak and after that it was observed when I lifted any object more than 5 kilogrammes. On February I disembarked from the vessel and I started visiting doctors to find out what was going on. After having an ultrasound check at the muscles of the pelvic floor, I was told that there was a strain (14,4 milimetres) at the left side of the pubic muscle. The pain at the center of the pelvis that period was unbelievable, since I had lifted my suitcase when I disembarked and it had worsened my condition. I was suggested to start physiotherapy, so I did. I had diamagnetic pump, magnetic fields, Tens for a year and a half. However, the symptoms at the center of the pelvis (pain at the pelvis, neuropathetic pain like being hit by electricity at the pelvis, pain when walking) persisted until February 2019. Today after having an extremely pleasant period of 3 months where I walked normally and had all my life back, I was suggested not to hesitate to get back to my normal life. I start swimming sessions without putting much stress to my feet.. however all the happiness of getting my life back flew away, since I felt again sharp pain at the left side of the pubic muscle when walked and the ultrasound that I had a few days ago showed that the strain in the same place is 4 milimetres long. I am suffering even to walk more than 50 metres without any inclination on the road. I have started again physiotherapy adding to the aforementioned treatment the class IV laser, but so long I have not seen any improvement.

I would like to know if anybody has experienced the same or similar situation, and if and how he managed to be treated.

[Buuldog]

I have pain in the same area and it is made worse when walking however unlike you I have not had a diagnosis. Can I ask what the PT that you undertook consisted of. I suspect that you are not in the UK because it is very hard to find treatment within our health system for this condition.

I am currently under a PT working remotely due to the virus, the treatment currently consists of light massage however this can flare things up. My pain has also extended into the abductor muscles in the left leg therefore now follows a line from the stomach in the groin and down the inside of the left leg . The pain started in the pubic groin area and has progressed since March 2019.

[Ant233]

If PT stands for Physical Therapy then as I said I had 5 times per week treated of 10 minutes with thw use of diamagnetic pump, of magnetic fields, and Tens for a year and a half. No I don't live in the UK. However I cannot find a doctor my country (Greece) who specialises in the pelvic floor area and had ever treated a situation similar to mine.

[Buuldog in reply to Ant233]

I guess it is the world over that their is a lack of knowledge about this condition, I have never heard about diamagnetic pump and do not think this this is used in the UK. Best of luck in your search for a solution.