A closer look
Sitting on a bicycle seat for too long can literally short-circuit your pelvis. Pudendal neuralgia, notoriously dubbed "cyclist syndrome," occurs when the primary nerve supplying the pelvic floor gets physically compressed or entrapped by surrounding hyperactive muscles. Patients experience agonizing, electric-shock pain that perfectly mimics severe prostate or gynecological infections, confusing doctors for years. Rehabilitation requires highly specialized intravaginal or intrarectal physical therapy to manually release the microscopic muscle trigger points that are suffocating the trapped nerve.
