Contents:
- Medical Video: Positioning With Partners
- You can still have sex even in a wheelchair
- What sex positions are right for people with spinal cord injuries?
- Spooning
- Woman on top
Medical Video: Positioning With Partners
Spinal cord injury results injuries or damage to the spinal cord, or nerves located at the end of the spinal canal. Often this injury affects your intimate activities with your partner. Although this injury causes damage to your spinal cord, do not let this injury interfere with your sexual relationship with your partner.
You can still have sex even in a wheelchair
The presumption that wheelchair users are unlikely to engage in sexual activity is incorrect Wheelchairs are usually used by those who experience spinal cord injury (spinal cord injury) due to an accident.
In fact, you have a spinal cord injury (spinal cord injury) can enjoy sexual activity, even reach great orgasm. After spinal cord injury, sexual position is definitely changed because sexual activity will be more difficult to do in bed.
Those who experience spinal cord injury will lose the function of the legs to support and the hips to push. Therefore, they are more dependent on upper body strength in sexual activity.
However, some sexual positions are actually easier to do using a wheelchair. Don't worry, there are many modern wheels that make it easier for users to take off the armrests, rotate the foot plate, fold the seat backs and lock the brakes so that sexual activity in a wheelchair is easier to do.
What sex positions are right for people with spinal cord injuries?
Determining sex positions for someone who has a spinal cord injury is not an easy thing.The condition of this injury can have a permanent impact on the strength, sensation, and function of other organs that are below the injured area. This can change a person's total life, especially in their daily lives.
For example, an injury to the lower back can affect nerve cells and organ functions such as the limbs, including the internal organs such as the bladder, and sexual organs.
Nerve damage also includes various aspects, such as the ability to feel touch, ability to move, and include the ability to regulate internal organs, for example to the process of breathing (if the damage occurs on the spine is quite high).
As a result, it is important for couples and patients themselves to consider whether sex positions interfere with breathing, interfere with the skin (for example if excessive pressure can cause pressure sores) and disrupt the muscles and spine. The couple must be more alert, because the patient may not feel pain or tingling due to being crushed for too long or an uncomfortable position (which can usually be easily felt by healthy people).
Spooning
The recommended sex position for those who experience spinal cord injury, especially if you are male by the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine is the position spooning. Why is this sideways position a good choice? Position spooning help you minimize the pressure and balance problems commonly experienced by someone who has this injury.
Position spooning is the position of the woman sleeping on her side and bending her legs towards the abdomen, forming a spoon-like position with the man behind the woman while hugging her body.
If you have difficulty penetrating or moving, use a pillow to help lift your pelvis. When dealing in lovemaking style spooning, women can lift one of their legs up and slightly forward to make it easier for men to penetrate. While having intercourse with this sex position, men can put their arms around a woman's body to make it more intimate.
Woman on top
You and your partner can also use the position woman on top aka the woman above. Position the man seated using a cushion behind his back. This position allows men who have a spinal cord injury to not move much but still can enjoy sex.
In carrying out sexual activity, the most important thing is that you must feel comfortable with your condition and accept yourself. You know best about what kind of position is comfortable. Communicating and exploring various sexual activities and positions with your partner will also help achieve satisfaction with each other. And you have to remember, besides sexual activity, there are still many other things that strengthen the relationship between you and your partner.
