Dutch Woman has Six "Foot Orgasms" a Day, Researchers Say

Researchers have found the first case of Foot Orgasm Syndrome that affected a 55-year old woman from Netherlands.

The woman, identified as Mrs. A, was experiencing orgasms in her foot. She started experiencing these sensations after she spent few weeks at intensive care where she was undergoing a Sepsis treatment. Part of the time she was in a coma, according to the New York Daily News. It was after this coma that she began feeling a kind of tingling in her foot.

"She felt terrible about it," Dr. Marcel D. Waldinger, a neuropsychiatric from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and one of the study authors, told LiveScience.

Researchers said that her brain wasn't able to differentiate between the sensations coming from her genitals and her foot. She had about six of these foot-orgasms a day.

Waldinger and colleagues said that the nerves of foot and vagina enter the spinal cord at almost the same level and so the brain must have started treating sensations from the foot as arousal signals. They further added that the MRI scans of her brain showed no abnormalities, but other tests showed that there were certain differences between nerves of her left and right foot. Electric signals in to her left foot led to her experiencing spontaneous orgasms, Livescience reported.

To treat the abnormality, the doctors injected anesthesia into one of her spinal nerves - the nerve that receives sensory information from the foot- which made the orgasms stop immediately. For eight months now, the woman hasn't had any of those orgasms. However, experts say that she might need to return for another dose if the syndrome occurs again, reports The Huffington Post.

So far, Mrs. A's condition is the only known case for "foot orgasm syndrome." However, researchers believe that there might be other women who have the condition but are too embarrassed to talk about it.

"It's not psychological," Waldinger told Livescience. "It's a neurological thing - we can explain it, we can treat it."

There is a website that Waldinger and colleagues have created to spread awareness about the rare condition. Their study is published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.