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Pelvic Institute is a global leader in chronic pelvic pain and nerve care, specializing in precise diagnosis and personalized treatment for complex pelvic conditions.

Here's what we can tell you about Dr. Renaud Bollens and the Pelvic Institute.Over 600 pudendal nerve procedures perform...
31/07/2026

Here's what we can tell you about Dr. Renaud Bollens and the Pelvic Institute.

Over 600 pudendal nerve procedures performed. Patients from more than 30 countries, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, the Middle East, and across Europe and South America.

An 80–85% success rate in eligible patients. Where success means: being able to sit through a work day, sleep without pain, travel, have intimacy, and not plan every moment around managing a condition no one has been able to explain.

The surgery is laparoscopic, minimally invasive. Four small incisions. Approximately 30 minutes. And for the patients where it works, they describe the return of ordinary life as something that can't quite be put into words.

Dr. Bollens also pioneered the posterior piriformis release,a second minimally invasive procedure for patients where the primary surgery provides incomplete relief. He is currently the only surgeon performing this specific approach.

If you've been searching for a long time, this is where many people find their answer.

Video consultations are available worldwide, visit pelvicinstitute.co

Pelvic symptoms are rarely clean and simple.Endometriosis causes pelvic pain, but so does pelvic floor dysfunction, inte...
29/07/2026

Pelvic symptoms are rarely clean and simple.

Endometriosis causes pelvic pain, but so does pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, and pudendal nerve compression. IBS causes bowel pain, but so do re**al nerve symptoms. Bladder pain looks like infection, but it often isn't.

The problem isn't just that these conditions exist. It's that they overlap so much that one can mask the other. You can be treated for endometriosis and still be in pain because the nerve involvement wasn't addressed.

Swipe to understand how these conditions interact and why getting the right referral matters.

Save this if you've been told it's 'just IBS.'

27/07/2026

It started with something small.

A fall on the coccyx. A long cycling trip. Surgery where the positioning on the table was slightly off.

Nothing that seemed serious. Not the beginning of anything.

And then, a week or two later, a burning sensation that wasn't there before. Pain in a place that didn't make sense.

In this clip, Dr. Bollens explains exactly what happens:

When the body experiences trauma near the pelvis, the surrounding muscles contract to protect it. One of those muscles is the piriformis. When the piriformis tightens and holds on, it starts to compress the pudendal nerve.

One event. A chain reaction. And the chain, not the original event, is what needs to be addressed.

📹 Clip from Lifestyle Design with Morgan Freedude
Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=l2QxQ-hIwhE

'It's just how periods are for some people.''A lot of women experience this.''Have you tried ibuprofen?''You might just ...
24/07/2026

'It's just how periods are for some people.'
'A lot of women experience this.'
'Have you tried ibuprofen?'
'You might just have a low pain threshold.'

Women's pain is dismissed more often, labelled as emotional more often, and investigated less thoroughly. This is documented. It is not a perception.

Severe, daily pelvic pain, whether or not it's linked to the menstrual cycle, is not something that should be normalised.

It may be endometriosis, pudendal nerve entrapment, pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, or a combination of more than one. It may be something else entirely.

But it deserves investigation. Not validation of the pain as inevitable. A proper assessment by someone who actually looks.


Most people have never heard of the pudendal nerve.But for those dealing with undiagnosed pelvic pain, understanding thi...
22/07/2026

Most people have never heard of the pudendal nerve.

But for those dealing with undiagnosed pelvic pain, understanding this nerve can change everything.

It runs through the deep pelvis and supplies sensation to the ge****ls, urethra, a**s, and surrounding tissue. When it becomes compressed, often by a muscle called the piriformis, it generates burning, electric, or pressured pain that looks completely normal on every standard test.

Swipe through to understand what pudendal neuralgia actually is, what symptoms it causes, and why it's so frequently missed.

There's a long list of symptoms that fall under male pelvic pain.Most of them don't get talked about, not in consultatio...
20/07/2026

There's a long list of symptoms that fall under male pelvic pain.

Most of them don't get talked about, not in consultations, not between friends, not in the room at all.

Which means a lot of men spend years thinking what they're experiencing is normal, age-related, or their own fault. It isn't.

If any of these are part of your daily life, a conversation with a pelvic pain specialist may be the most useful next step you haven't taken yet.

Which one surprised you most? Drop it in the comments.


17/07/2026

When erectile difficulties come up, the standard next step is a cardiac evaluation.

The reasoning is sound, the arteries supplying the p***s are the same diameter as the coronary arteries. Arterial disease in one could mean disease in the other.

But here's what Dr. Bollens has observed across hundreds of cases: the cardiac evaluation comes back normal far more often than expected.

Because the issue isn't inside the artery, it's outside it. The pudendal neurovascular bundle is being compressed from the outside in, not blocked from within.

In this clip, Dr. Bollens describes a patient who refused medication, had a completely normal cardiac workup, was found to have pudendal nerve compression, and after surgery recovered his erectile function completely.

📹 Clip from Lifestyle Design with Morgan Freedude
Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=l2QxQ-hIwhE

Visit pelvicinstitute.co to start your healing journey!

If you've been diagnosed with chronic prostatitis and antibiotics haven't worked, this carousel is worth reading.Most ch...
15/07/2026

If you've been diagnosed with chronic prostatitis and antibiotics haven't worked, this carousel is worth reading.

Most chronic prostatitis (Type III — also called CPPS) has no detectable bacterial cause. Which means antibiotics aren't addressing what's actually happening.

The real drivers are often pelvic floor dysfunction, pudendal nerve irritation, or surrounding muscle tension. None of these respond to antibiotics.

Swipe to understand what CPPS actually involves and what a proper evaluation looks like.

Save this if this sounds like your experience.


13/07/2026

Premature ej*******on is almost always described as a psychological problem.

Medical schools teach it that way. It's treated with behavioural therapy and anxiolytics. And patients carry the weight of a label that says the issue is in their mind.

But Dr. Bollens has operated on men where premature ej*******on was the primary complaint. After pudendal nerve decompression surgery, the symptom resolved completely.

That's not a psychological result. That's a nerve being decompressed.

The pudendal nerve controls the fibres involved in ej*******on. When it's compressed and those fibres become hypersensitive, the ejaculatory reflex responds faster and more intensely than intended.

The same mechanism explains a parallel condition in women, persistent sensations of impending arousal with no external trigger. Same nerve. Same compression. Same physical cause.

📹 Dr. Bollens explains this directly in his interview on the Lifestyle Design Podcast with Morgan Freedude:
youtube.com/watch?v=l2QxQ-hIwhE

Not all cases are nerve-related. But if standard approaches haven't helped, this conversation may be worth having.

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Pelvic pain doesn't come with a clear label.It shows up looking like a UTI. Or prostatitis. Or IBS. Or sciatica. Or a gy...
10/07/2026

Pelvic pain doesn't come with a clear label.

It shows up looking like a UTI. Or prostatitis. Or IBS. Or sciatica. Or a gynaecological condition. And so it gets treated as each of those, one by one, without ever getting better.

The reason? Because these conditions share symptoms but not causes. And standard tests don't always identify what's actually driving the pain.

Swipe through the 5 most common misdiagnoses and what might actually be going on.

Comment 'pelvic pain' below if you'd like a symptom checklist.

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