Dysfunctional pelvic floor muscles can lead to difficulties with urination, incontinence, pain during sexual activity, or changes in orgasmic function.

“So very often, pelvic floor dysfunction, just like you had pain with urination, women can also develop pain with urination that doesn't go away. And it can start where they had a UTI that triggered the pelvic floor, and then the pelvic floor just didn't relax, but the pain just triggered the pelvic floor to tense up. And it didn't relax because, again, we're not taught how to relax our pelvic floor. And then they've developed pelvic floor dysfunction. Like, why is the UTI not going away? Or why does it keep coming back? And so that's another common thing that we see in people who have, quote, unquote, recurrent UTIs but don't really have them.”