Pelvic Reconstruction

Pregnancy and childbirth can damage a women’s internal organs.

The uterus, vagina, bladder and rectum can be injured during the delivery of your baby so that you experience significant symptoms immediately or even decades later. These symptoms include pelvic pain, pelvic heaviness, back pain, bladder leakage, pain with sex, vaginal looseness, problems with defecation, sexual dysfunction and many others.

The anatomical problems are in actuality complex hernias involving your pelvic floor. A simple physical exam and a detailed history is all that is necessary to make the diagnosis. Surgical repair is sometimes necessary, depending on how much discomfort the symptoms are causing you.

The physicians at Cherokee Women’s Health Specialists are surgeons that specialize in these repairs. Good communication between the patient and doctor is essential: it is a myth that you must suffer from these problems because you are getting older.