Sacral Nerve Stimulation May Aid Female Sexual Dysfunction
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Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is a therapeutic procedure that could be used to help women with sexual dysfunction. However, the benefits of this method in this indication should still be reviewed in high-quality studies with sexual function as the primary endpoint, wrote Erik Allemeyer, MD, PhD, a proctologist at the Niels Stensen Clinics (Franziskus Hospital Harderberg, Georgsmarienhütte) in Germany, and his colleagues in a recent journal article.
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@anindita The World Health Organization defines sexual health as physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality. There are extensive investigations that verify the considerable importance of sexual function on a person's quality of life. It therefore follows that therapy may be required if an individual is experiencing sexual dysfunction.
According to the authors, there are diverse data on the frequency of sexual dysfunction in women, in part because of heterogeneous definitions. The prevalence ranges between 26% and 91%. The estimated prevalence of orgasm difficulties in particular ranges from 16% to 25%. Sexual dysfunction can therefore be said to be a clinically significant problem.