“When I’ve decided to start a treatment with Marta my main purpose was to stop feeling pain on my back and understand what was making my back and neck so weak. On our first appointment, she asked me if I was feeling any problems on my pelvic floor and if I had any idea how the muscles of this area work and what can affect them. That’s how I started to realise that I had more issues that I thought. First thing I’ve realised, is that the constant tension I was feeling on my pelvic floor was not due to the wrong way I was processing my daily stress, but to a general weakness and excessive contraction of the muscles of the area. On our second appointment, I’ve found out what causes this contraction and weakness: I’ve got something called vulvodynia which explains why the skin in the vulva and vagina is fragile and irritated and is affecting the way the muscles work. There are many reasons that cause this, but the most important thing I’ve found out is that the pain I’m feeling (both in my daily and sexual life) has nothing to do with me personally and what I do/ don’t do, but with a physical condition that I could in any way avoid.
I’ve come to know that my body is much more complex and in pain then I thought and that I can help it become stronger and healthier, for example starting to understand it.”
Camilla, West London