Sarah Chapman blogs highlights of a multidisciplinary tweetchat, hosted by @WeNurses, to discuss some questions around sexuality in healthcare. Part of our series on The Problem With Sex
Tag: sexual health
Still being sexual in chronic illness
In a blog for our series on The Problem With Sex, Lynda Ware discusses sexuality in chronic illness
Vaginismus is ruining sex. Research must move beyond penetration
This blog looks at the at the problems with sex that vaginismus can cause, the poor evidence-base for treatments, and what needs to change.
Asking about your sex life isn’t vulgar, it’s vital
Pelvic physiotherapist and comedian Elaine Miller @GussieGrips pulls back the covers and shines a torch on health, research, and asking about your sex life
Vaginal dilator therapy: vibrate, dilate, or wait?
Nurse and researcher Tracie Miles blogs about Cochrane evidence on vaginal dilator therapy after pelvic radiotherapy, and about what happens when science listens to women
Talking with patients about sex: asking, listening, learning
Five Cochrane trainee doctors to share their experiences of talking with patients about sex.
Let’s talk about sex and chronic pelvic pain: it matters!
Sex and chronic pelvic pain was one of the things people talked about, at a workshop to discuss which treatment outcomes mattered to them. Sally Crowe tells the story.
Sex and asthma: could patients’ love lives hold the key to better asthma outcomes?
In this blog, Asthma UK’s Dr Andy Whittamore explores how talking about sex and asthma could result in better asthma self-care
The problem with sex: a taboo that’s harming patients?
Introducing Cochrane UK's special blog series #theproblemwithsex, which aims to lift the lid on sex and chronic health conditions
No sex please, we’re menopausal!
Physiotherapist and comedian Elaine Miller tackles that double taboo, sex and the menopause, in the last of our special series.