ABSTRACT
The pelvis contains not only different organs such as the bladder, rectum, or genital organs but also blood vessels and nerves. Different specialties have focused on the pathologies of all these different anatomical structures. Gynecology deals with diseases of the urogenital organs in women and urology with the urogenital organs in men, while diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are the domain of general surgeons, but no specialty deals electively with the pathologies of the pelvic nerves! This is even more astounding that, after the central nervous system and the spinal cord, no other part of the body contains so many and such important nerves: pelvic nerves are not only involved in sexuality, voiding, storage functions of the bladder and the rectum, standing up, and walking but also in the transport of all sensitive information coming from the lower limbs and the pelvis, including the proprioception involved in equilibrium. One kind of such information being transported by the pelvic nerves to the central nervous system is the information of pain, pelvic pain, and/or pain from the lower extremities.
