Anatom3DPudendal nerve
Nervus pudendus · Stydký nerv
Nervous system
Looks like
A finger-thin nerve curling around a spine of the pelvic bone to the perineum.
What it does
Sensation of the genitals and control of the outlets.
Keeping it well
Avoid long hours on a narrow bike saddle; numbness there is the warning.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Faecal incontinence
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Premature ejaculation
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies