An overview of our posts about common sexual disorders and dysfunctions, notably those that may be alleviated or resolved by massage and bodywork therapies.
Anovulation is an ovulatory disorder characterized by the absence of ovulation in a woman who has the reproductive age. Bear in mind however that anovulation is normal when a woman is pregnant, when she’s is [ Read more … ]
Sometimes sperm is not present with ejaculation or a man may not be able to ejaculate. This can be due to problems in sperm production itself or due to obstructions of the flow of semen [ Read more … ]
With Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) a sperm cell is directly injected into an egg that is obtained from the woman’s ovaries. When the fertilization is successful, the embryo is transferred to the woman’s uterus. ICSI [ Read more … ]
Egg, Sperm or Embryo freezing is a process called Cryopreservation or Cryoconservation. What happens is that eggs, sperm or embryos are cooled down to very low temperatures, somewhere between minus 80°and minus196°C, and afterwards stored [ Read more … ]
Endometriosis is a sometimes painful gynecological disorder in which the type of tissue that lines the inside wall of a uterus (the endometrium, the tissue which during pregnancy becomes the placenta) grows outside the uterus. [ Read more … ]
Infertility with unknown causes (also called unexplained infertility) is the case when sperm quality has normal standards, the woman ovulates regularly with a good ovarian reserve and good egg quality, when the fallopian tubes are [ Read more … ]
It may seem obvious, but getting pregnant is not the same as having a successful delivery. That is, there’s a difference between pregnancy and live birth success rates. Consequently, fertility treatments need to take both [ Read more … ]
One of the main objections of Modern Medicine against Traditional Medicine is that Traditional Medicine is largely unscientific. That is, unscientific measured according to what is thought to be scientific in our contemporary society. To [ Read more … ]
In our contemporary society, we are exposed daily to many potentially fertility-harming substances, such as so-called free radicals (oxygen molecules with an unequal number of electrons which can cause damage in the body) and certain [ Read more … ]
Secondary infertility means that a woman, man or a couple experiences difficulties having a baby after already having had one or more children. One of the causes may be aging. The older a woman gets, [ Read more … ]