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Back pain after intercourse

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 17.10.2021

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Our contemporaries, especially urban residents, do not have a lot of physical activity. This leads to the fact that the problem of pain in the back arises in an increasingly young population. In this regard, doctors are most often addressed by people in active working age (from 35 to 45 years), in recent years, the number of children and adolescents who have encountered this problem has also increased.

With this problem, sometimes a part of the population of any gender encounters and, more often than not, it is caused by diseases of the spine (scoliosis, osteochondrosis, arthrosis), which are aggravated with intensive movements.

However, the unfortunate situation in the genito-urinary organs can also be manifested by reflected pain in the lower back.

In men, pain in the lumbar region during or after intercourse can be caused by: prostatitis, testicular pathologies (dropsy, cyst, orchitis) or urethra, venereal diseases, widening of the veins, tearing of the frenum, inflammation of the seminal ducts, semen stasis as a result of frequent protection with the help of interrupted coition.

In the beautiful half of mankind for pathological reasons (inflammatory and degenerative processes in the genitourinary system, congestion in the pelvis, neoplasms, adhesions, vaginismus and others) psychological (pain after deprivation of virginity, incomplete defloration, vaginal injuries, psychogenic genitalia, violence in past).

To establish the cause and to provide help only a professional can, restrictions in sexual relations will not solve the problem of pain.

It is possible that pain can be caused by uncomfortable conditions, uncomfortable posture, physiological mismatch of the size of the genital organs. If you want both partners and competent professional help, any problems can be solved.

Back pain after various activities can be a sign of both innocuous stretching of the muscles and enough dangerous pathologies. Approach to the elimination of the pain symptom needs to be differentiated. The intensity of the syndrome is not indicative, the pain from stretching or krepature can be more acute than from arthrosis or kidney disease. You can analyze the previous pain events and wait a little. Harmless symptoms at rest and comfortable posture quickly come to naught.

However, if you are constantly worried about attacks of severely localized pain, continuing or arising even during rest in comfortable conditions, in addition - fettering movements, it is necessary to undergo a survey. If you do not even know the cause of the pain, start with a visit to the therapist or family doctor.

If the pain in the back is accompanied by a fever, weakness, nausea, numbness, headache, confusion, then emergency help is probably needed.

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