Jennifer Hipp, PA-C
What are common sexual health issues?
Your sexuality is a complex combination of your brain, hormones, nerves, blood vessels, and soft tissues. Each component needs to function for you to become aroused and able to engage in sexual activity to reach climax.
Your sexual health issues can range from a mental or emotional lack of desire through physical problems with arousal and performance. As a result, sexual health issues include: Desire disorders, Arousal disorders, Orgasm disorders, and Pain disorders.
While you may initially feel uncomfortable or embarrassed to talk about your sexual health, specialty trained medical practitioners offer through testing and consultations to identify the root cause of your problem and provides innovative and effective therapies to restore your sexual health.
What are the symptoms of sexual health problems?
Sexual health problems affect both men and women. Both men and women experience libido
loss, an inability to become aroused and painful intercourse.
In addition to these shared sexual health issues, men can struggle with erectile dysfunction, premature, absent or delayed ejaculation, and an inability to control the timing of their orgasm.
Some of the common sexual health issues faced by women include changes to the vagina, urinary tract, and surrounding tissues as well as inability to relax the vaginal muscles enough for penetrative vaginal sex.
What causes sexual dysfunction?
Sexual dysfunction stems from a variety of physical and psychological issues. Some
of the physical problems that affect your sexual health may include: Hormone Imbalance,
Menopause, and Andropause, Medications, Obesity, Lichen sclerosus and other disorders
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of the female genitourinary system, Health conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes, and Alcohol and tobacco use.
Psychological issues including stress, depression, relationship issues, and concerns about body image can also interfere with your sexual health.
How can I improve my sexual health?
If you’re experiencing sexual dysfunction, talk to a specialist who is a patient-focused health care provider.
If your issues are due to decreased and imbalanced hormone levels, as in menopause
and andropause, Jennifer provides bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
This highly customized treatment can relieve problems such as vaginal changes and dryness, painful sex, erectile dysfunction, and libido loss.
The O-Shot and P-shot are regenerative medicine treatments that use your body’s own healing factors, specifically platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections, to rejuvenate the tissues and blood vessels in your genitals. This “call to action,” by the specifically placing a concentrated level of these healing factors regenerates nerves, glands, blood vessels, and supporting tissues in the area to increase your sexual function. PRP has been in use in the medical community safely
and effectively for decades.
GAINSWave and FemiWave™ are noninvasive treatments that use pulsed waves to stimulate your body’s natural regenerative abilities, increasing and repairing blood vessels and tissues to improve blood flow and sensation in your genitals.
