While unloading some equipment from the van, I strained my back yet again. I really should have kept up those exercises for my back. While not in great pain it was very uncomfortable, so I booked in to see my physiotherapist. The earliest I could get an appointment was on Thursday, in three days, by then I was walking with a bit of a hobble and a lean to the left. Ginny, my physiotherapist ushered me into a treatment room and told me to get undressed down to my underwear. Five minutes later, I was sitting on the treatment table when she came in and asked me how I felt and how I thought it might have happened.
“Right stand up, feet together and face me.” Holding me by the hips she instructed me. “Ok lean to the left, keeping your hands close to your legs and then lean to the right for me.”
“I noticed you were standing with a bit of a lurch, when you came in. How are you otherwise, Peter?”
“Great,” I said. “Do you mean other than my back?”
“Yes, any worries, stresses?” She replied. “Is it affecting you in any other way? The pain travelling down your legs, any numbness?”
“No,” I replied while thinking about the unwarranted boners I seemed to be getting when the twinges would hit. Surely, they were not related.
“Ok then on the table, face down and let’s get some heat into the area.”
She folded the top of my boxers over and placed a heat pack on my lower back. “I’ll be back in fifteen” She said.
I must have dozed off when she came back, again instructing me to stand while holding my hips and leaning to the left and right.
“Ok, some more heat and then we will try some manipulation.”
I got back on the table and she pulled the top of my boxers down a bit and placed another heat pack on my back. “Back in fifteen,” she said and left the room.
On her return she removed the heat pack and started to massage the small of my back on either side of the spine quite vigorously. Somewhat painfully, I started to think about what work I needed to complete, that afternoon. Eventually she said “Ok, stand up for me again, so we can see how you’re standing.”
In horror, I realised I had a boner again. I lay there trying to think of anything that might get rid of it.
“Come on, up you get,” She reiterated.
“I won’t be a moment, hang on.” I replied.
“Come on, you shouldn’t have any trouble standing, get up!” She ordered
I slowly swung my legs over the edge of the table willing my boner to go away and stood with my back to her. She grabbed my hips and said, “Well that looks better, turn around now” Holding my hips she turned me around, to be confronted by my rigid boner forming a tent in my boxers. Taking a step back her hand covered her mouth while she stared at my boxers. She then giggled.
Embarrassed beyond belief, I said “Look it just seems to happen when my back has the painful twinges. It’s not because you aroused me or that I was thinking about sex.”
“Err really,” she said, still looking at me crotch. “Well you are standing straighter, in more ways than one. You can get dressed now”
She stayed there while I got dressed, clearly looking at my still erect cock under the boxers.
Without much further talk I paid and left feeling dreadful and thinking I might have to find another physiotherapist.
I had been going to Ginny for a few years and had never had anything like this happen before. Not that she wasn’t attractive. She was slim, petite really, about 5’2” with mousy brown hair cut in a ‘sensible’ page boy cut. Her manner was professional to the point of being brusque. She always wore a shapeless uniform that looked like a nurse’s scrubs. Not very form fitting or revealing. I had never thought of her sexually at all. In fact, I had suspected that she probably batted for the other team.
I spent the afternoon trying to bury myself in work, all the time thinking about what had happened. No doubt, her colleagues had been told about the creepy patient, with the boner. It will probably be in my case notes forever now.
Around 5.30pm the phone rang. “Mr. Brookes, it’s Virginia from Newtown Physiotherapists here.”
More business-like, than ever. I had never heard her call herself Virginia before. I dreaded what was to come.
“Yes, Virginia,” I Said. “Look I want to apologise for what happ-.”
“Never mind that. I’ve done some research and it turns out that this happens in a small percentage of cases. Damage and stimulation of the nerves can cause high flow priapism, initially but unless the cause is treated it could turn into low flow priapism which is painful and may require surgical intervention. Let alone not resolving your back issues”
“Jesus, seriously?” I reacted.
“Yes seriously, so I need to see you again, as a matter of urgency. Can you make an appointment at 8.00am tomorrow?”
“Sure” I responded. “Is there anything I need to do?”
“Yes, don’t take any pain relief and be there on time.” She replied and hung up.
The next day, dressed in a very corporate slacks suit, she showed me into the same treatment room with the same instructions, however she waited while I stripped down to my boxers. I notice that she glanced at my now limp crotch before again holding my hips while I leaned left and right.
“Well that’s a bit better than yesterday. Hop back onto the table and I’ll get a heat pack.”
She then folded the top of my boxers down and put the heat pack on my back.
Fifteen minutes later she returned, having changed into scrubs. After prodding my back for some time, questioning me about where it hurt and what kind of pain it was, she pulled the top of my boxers down exposing the top of my buttocks and started to massage my lower back, around the coccyx. At times she would drive her thumbs into my back near the spine and the muscle at the top of my buttocks.
After a while I could feel my cock starting to harden again. I said “Um Virginia, it’s happening again.” She stopped, paused and then said.
“The erection?”
“Yes, sorry” I replied.
“Don’t apologise,” she responded, “but we will have to reduce it before we can treat your back.”
“Reduce it?” I queried.
“Yes, if you are relieved it will probably go down and I can then treat your back. If I try to treat your back while you have tension caused by the erection, it will only cause more damage.”