Many women’s pelvic organs change as they age. They may have a feeling of pelvic pressure or heaviness. It may feel like “something is falling out of the vagina” , these symptoms may be caused by pelvic support problems. These problems…
The urinary bladder is a hollow muscle that stores urine made by the kidney. Urine flows from the kidney through tubes called ureters to the bladder. As the bladder fills, the muscular wall of the bladder stretches. Sensors in the…
After your surgery, it is common to feel sore in your groin and vaginal area. Some people describe this as feeling similar to the soreness felt after riding a horse or bicycle or like pelvic cramping. This will be much…
Adequate levels of estrogen inside the walls of your urethra are essential for these walls to be strong enough to maintain continence (bladder control) along with the urethral sphincter muscle. Perimenopause, the time in a woman’s life in which the…
Bladder function is controlled by the brain, nervous system and muscles of the pelvic floor. In a normal bladder, as the bladder fills with urine, the pressure within the urethra (the tube that allows urine to empty from the bladder)…
