Over the past 15 years, there has been ongoing debate about whether vaginismus can be differentiated from dyspareunia categorically, dimensionally, or not at all (Reissing, Binik, & Khalifé, 1999). Despite the fact that the debate on diagnostic distinction continues, a significant change was made in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American ...

BACKGROUND Vaginismus is a sexual disorder that can cause painful intercourse. Although several studies have shown a relationship between higher education and socio-economic level of women with vaginismus, the relationship between demographic characteristics and other variables remains unclear. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to determine the demographic characteristics of women wi...

OBJECTIVE Genital and sexual pain is still neglected. Consequences may be dramatic, since infertility and sexual dysfunction may be reciprocally linked. This is the first study to focus on the identification of cases of vaginismus in the ART scenario and on the introduction of intra-cycle interventions as part of a comprehensive, integrated and patient-centered perspective. METHODS This obser...

INTRODUCTION Vaginismus is mostly unknown among clinicians and women. Vaginismus causes women to have fear, anxiety, and pain with penetration attempts. AIM To present a large cohort of patients based on prior published studies approved by an institutional review board and the Food and Drug Administration using a comprehensive multimodal vaginismus treatment program to treat the physical and ...

Vaginismus is a poorly understood disorder, characterized by an involuntary muscular spasm of the pelvic floor muscles and outer third of the vagina during intercourse attempt, which results in aversion to penetration. It is reported to affect 1-7% of women worldwide. With this report the authors aim to describe the case of a young patient with vaginismus in whom techniques usually from the chr...

points The conditions of vaginismus, vestibulodynia, and dyspareunia overlap Diagnosis of vaginismus is based on a full psychosexual history The degree of distress, anxiety, and self reported interference with penetration is more central to the diagnosis than is muscle tone Genital examination is needed at some point to exclude organic pathology Information on sexual function and pelvic anatomy...

Background and Objective Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), now commonly used for reducing muscular spasms in other neuromuscular disorders, is now increasingly proposed also for treating pelvic floor disorders, including chronic pelvic pain syndromes, vaginismus, vulvodynia and vulvar vestibulitis syndrome. To provide up-to-date information on these advances we reviewed the literature about Bunt inj...