For Practitioners

...Gynaecologists, Therapists, GP's...

"The American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists does not provide guidelines for the confirmation of the presence of vaginal spasm in vaginismus. No official gynecological diagnostic system exists for vaginismus. In addition, no specific recommendations are provided for the examination of women with dyspareunia." (From REISSING 1999, 2004)

No need to add much else. Doctors can understandably be just in the dark about vaginismus as many women are. So we hope the information in this website will be helpful to you too...

• 1. Literature Review on Vaginismus
• 2. Limitations of official diagnostic criteria
• 3. Misconceptions about Vaginismus
• 4. Vulvodynia, Dyspareunia, V.Vestibulitis + Vag
• 5. Vag. and Internal exams: Best practices
• 6. What women won't tell you
• 7. Internal exams, sexual abuse and retraumatization
• 8. References and Bibliography