{"id":5542,"date":"2016-07-21T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/proktalgia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:41:48","slug":"proctalgia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/proctalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is proctalgia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h1  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >What is proctalgia?<\/h1><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_hr  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Proctalgia, first described by the Romans, is pain due to a spasm of the pelvic floor muscles, the muscles of the anal sphincter, or the muscles of the rectum.<\/p>\n<p>The term proctalgia mainly includes two functional syndromes of anal pain:<br \/>\n\u2022 Proctalgia fugax (PF) (fugitive proctalgia)<br \/>\n\u2022 Roctalgia fugax (PF) (fleeting proctalgia) and levator ani syndrome (LAS)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='av-social-sharing-box  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  '><div class='av-share-box'><h5 class='av-share-link-description av-no-toc '>Share this entry<\/h5><ul class='av-share-box-list noLightbox'><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-facebook' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/proctalgia\/&#038;t=What%20is%20proctalgia%3F' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f3' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Facebook' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-twitter' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Twitter\" href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=What%20is%20proctalgia%3F&#038;url=https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/?p=5542' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f1' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Twitter' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-linkedin' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on LinkedIn\" href='https:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;title=What%20is%20proctalgia%3F&#038;url=https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/proctalgia\/' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8fc' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on LinkedIn' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7486,"parent":0,"menu_order":135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5542","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proctoclinic.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}