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•  Urinary incontinence

This is uncontrollable leakage of urine. The most common form of urinary incontinence is stress urinary incontinence, where leakage is associated with coughing, sneezing, laughing, or other activities.

• Pelvic organ prolapse (POP)

This is a common pelvic floor disorder where one or more of the organs in the pelvis, such as the uterus and the cervix or the inner vaginal walls, become relaxed to the point of dropping close to or beyond the vaginal opening. These prolapses cause women to feel pressure, fullness, or a bulging sensation in the vagina.

• Fecal incontinence

This is inadvertent loss of stool in liquid, solid, or gas bowel contents.

• Pelvic pain

This type of pain arises from any of the organ systems housed within the female pelvis.

 Treatments for pelvic organ prolapse

• Lifestyle changes — These include dietary changes or weight loss.
• Physical therapy — Kegels, exercises that can strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, can help with POP.
• Pessary — is a intra-vaginal support devices to hold up the organs or vaginal walls.
• Surgery — Suspension procedures and surgeries may be necessary to restore normal vaginal anatomy.

• Lifestyle changes — These can include limits on caffeine and alcohol, pelvic floor exercises, quitting smoking, dietary changes, and others.
• Physical therapy — Kegels can help limit leakage.
• Pessary — This can be used to compress the urethra to prevent leakage.
• Procedures — Injections into the muscle of the urethra are called urethral bulking.
• Surgery — A urethral sling can be surgically placed under the urethra to help prevent urinary leakage.

• Medications —  may prescribe antispasmodic or anticholinergic drugs.
• Nonsurgical devices — Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation provides indirect electrical stimulation to the nerves responsible for bladder function.
• Injections —  may inject Botox into the bladder muscle, which relaxes the muscle and reduces bladder muscle spasms.

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