Sexual function has more than one cause — so it usually needs more than one answer.
Most people arrive expecting one explanation. In practice, sexual function is affected by five things, and for most people more than one of them is involved.
The five factors
Mental & arousalStress, mood, sleep, relationship context, anticipation.
NervesSensation and signalling, including after surgery or injury.
CirculationBlood flow into and held within the tissue.
HormonesTestosterone, estrogen and the wider metabolic picture.
Pelvic floorStrength, endurance and coordination of the muscles.
The three pillars of Revitalize Sexual Function Optimization
Those five factors are what we look at. These three pillars are what we do about it.
- Health and lifestyle education and optimization. The part that keeps working after treatment ends — and the part most clinics skip.
- Treatments designed primarily to restore or improve circulation, with EMSELLA® specifically addressing pelvic-floor strength and function.
- Hormone balance. Assessed properly, and treated only where it is actually contributing.
Five factors, three pillars — the lists are deliberately different. One pillar can answer more than one factor.
Why we combine three areas of care. Many sexual-function services address only one or two contributors. Revitalize intentionally brings together sexual function, urinary and pelvic-floor care, and hormone and metabolic care, because these systems frequently overlap.
Bladder and continence concerns have their own framework and are not treated as a branch of sexual function. Ask us and we will explain how that pathway works.
Why care may combine more than one approach
Different interventions do different jobs. Hormone optimization does not replace circulation treatment. Circulation treatment does not replace pelvic-floor treatment. Pelvic-floor treatment does not correct a hormone deficiency. And the lifestyle work matters regardless of what else you do.
So where more than one factor is contributing, we prefer to address them concurrently, in the same period of care, rather than treating one thing, waiting to see, then starting another. A program coordinates the appropriate treatments and carries program pricing when they are purchased together.
You can still buy treatments individually. That option is always open, and for some people it is the right one.
But treatments bought separately at different times are charged at standalone pricing, and they do not retroactively qualify for program pricing. It is worth knowing that before you decide, rather than afterwards.
How long does this take?
Sexual function optimization is generally not a one-visit process. Some changes may be noticed earlier, but meaningful improvement and stabilization can develop over several months, depending on which factors are contributing and which care you choose.
We will not promise you an outcome, and you should be cautious of anyone who does. What we will do is tell you honestly what we expect to be achievable in your situation.
What decides which treatments I actually need?
Your paid clinical assessment. We give you transparent pricing up front, but the level of care that is appropriate for you is determined at your assessment — not before it, and not by whoever answers the phone.
This conversation is optional and non-clinical. Your coordinator can explain the options, the categories of treatment, pricing ranges, financing and how benefits generally work — but cannot diagnose, decide your exact treatment, or tell you a particular program is medically required.