Abstract
There have been patients with vague, chronic intrapelvic pain called coccygeal, sacrococcygeal, sacral pain etc.. Minute intrarectal digital examination of those patients often reaveals tender induration(s) along the pudendal nerve. All the more, accumulation of the data of the patients shows they have symptom complex of pain, incontinence, difficult evacuation of the stool and also such abdominal symptoms as pain and fullness. Laboratory and roentgenological examinations of the sensory and motility functions of the anus, rectum and colon revealed dysfunctins of the 3 organs caused by disturbanse of the pudendal nerve and pelvic splanchnic nerve plexus, both of which originated from S2, S3, S4 nerve plexus. The 4 symptoms comprising the syndrome are named “Sacral nerve neuropathy syndrome” and are often accompanied disorders of lumbar spine. Further investigation is needed.
