Genital sensation and sexual function in women bicyclists and runners: Are your feet safer than your seat?

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1018-1027

  Guess, Marsha K ^a,c   Connell, Kathleen ^a   Schrader, Steven ^b   Reutman, Susan ^b   Wang, Andrea ^a   LaCombe, Julie ^a   Toennis, Christine ^b   Lowe, Brian ^b   Melman, Arnold ^a   Mikhail, Magdy ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pudendal Nerve; Quantitative Sensory Testing; Sexual Function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLITORIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUNNING; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SPORTS MEDICINE; URETHRA; VAGINA; VIBRATION SENSE;

EID: 33750461253     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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