Does Vaginismus Online Therapy Work?

European Board Certified Sexual Therapist Gynecologist Dr. INFORMATIONAL article about Didem Kurban’s VAGINISMUS TREATMENT..

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Vaginismus, woman; It is the inability to have sexual intercourse due to anxiety, stress and false awareness. The woman, who is very comfortable during foreplay, panics during sexual intercourse and involuntarily stiffens herself and does not allow sexual intercourse, or sexual intercourse is very painful for the woman. She does not allow sexual intercourse by contracting her vaginal muscles to protect herself during sexual intercourse. There are many psychological or physiological reasons for vaginal contraction that does not allow sexual intercourse. Vaginismus becomes a huge problem for women over time. The woman will gradually lose her self-confidence and sexual reluctance will begin. In these cases, he/she may experience problems with his/her spouse and these problems deeply affect their relationship.

A new era has emerged in our country and in the world with the Covid-19 epidemic. Now all business has started to be carried out through online platforms. Like everything else, therapies can be done online. However, if we come to the question of whether online therapy works in vaginismus, the answer is NO, online therapy is NOT effective in vaginismus.

The reason is that in our treatment, exercises are performed to control the vaginal muscles, and these exercises are performed one-on-one between the patient and the doctor. Since it is not healthy to perform these exercises online, we do not prefer online vaginismus treatment, but we do not think it is healthy.