Healthy Bowel Habits: Don't take your bowel health for granted
When we have difficulty evacuating our body’s compensatory strategy is often to strain. This places a lot of undue stress on your pelvic floor, often leading to injury and/or prolapse.
The Woman’s Center in the Phoenix-area community of Mesa, Arizona, is committed to restoring women’s independence, dignity, and quality of life.
The Woman’s Center is a comprehensive center focusing solely on treating pelvic floor disorders in women. It is named the Woman’s Center instead of the Women’s Center because the specialists’ focus is on each individual woman. The Woman’s Center is composed of two specialized units: The Woman’s Center for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and The Woman’s Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery. Ryan Stratford, MD, MBA, FACOG, Kelly Kantartzis, MD, MS, FACOG, and Peter Jeppson, MD, FACOG along with the dedicated providers and staff focus exclusively on treating female pelvic floor disorders to help women deal with disorders like vaginal and uterine prolapse, urine and stool leakage, and post-childbirth complications.
The entire team delivers comprehensive care to their patients. They understand that pelvic floor disorders rarely occur in isolation, especially when treating female pelvic conditions. This ensures the team actually eliminates the root of the problem, not just the symptoms.
At their state-of-the-art facility, The Woman’s Center takes advantage of cutting-edge diagnostics and treatments, such as physical therapy, biofeedback, bladder and bowel retraining, tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), periurethral injections, percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation, cystoscopic Botox® injections, and more.
As reconstructive surgeons, Dr. Stratford, Dr. Kantartzis and Dr. Jeppson have several years of combined experience in treating female pelvic floor disorders. Because they’re trained in urology and gynecology, they’re able to provide highly specialized minimally invasive surgical treatments, like pessary management, electrical stimulation, and in-office neuromodulation.
The caring staff specializes in treating female pelvic floor disorders, so patients know they’re receiving the best care possible the moment they walk into The Woman’s Center. The team has the experience, skillset, and discretion every woman wants when visiting a pelvic floor disorder specialist. Call or book an appointment online today to learn more.
The Woman’s Center in the Phoenix-area community of Mesa, Arizona, is committed to restoring women’s independence, dignity, and quality of life.
The Woman’s Center is a comprehensive center focusing solely on treating pelvic floor disorders in women. It is named the Woman’s Center instead of the Women’s Center because the specialists’ focus is on each individual woman. The Woman’s Center is composed of two specialized units: The Woman’s Center for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and The Woman’s Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery. Ryan Stratford, MD, MBA, FACOG, Kelly Kantartzis, MD, MS, FACOG, and Peter Jeppson, MD, FACOG along with the dedicated providers and staff focus exclusively on treating female pelvic floor disorders to help women deal with disorders like vaginal and uterine prolapse, urine and stool leakage, and post-childbirth complications.
The entire team delivers comprehensive care to their patients. They understand that pelvic floor disorders rarely occur in isolation, especially when treating female pelvic conditions. This ensures the team actually eliminates the root of the problem, not just the symptoms.
At their state-of-the-art facility, The Woman’s Center takes advantage of cutting-edge diagnostics and treatments, such as physical therapy, biofeedback, bladder and bowel retraining, tension-free vaginal tape (TVT), periurethral injections, percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation, cystoscopic Botox® injections, and more.
As reconstructive surgeons, Dr. Stratford, Dr. Kantartzis and Dr. Jeppson have several years of combined experience in treating female pelvic floor disorders. Because they’re trained in urology and gynecology, they’re able to provide highly specialized minimally invasive surgical treatments, like pessary management, electrical stimulation, and in-office neuromodulation.
The caring staff specializes in treating female pelvic floor disorders, so patients know they’re receiving the best care possible the moment they walk into The Woman’s Center. The team has the experience, skillset, and discretion every woman wants when visiting a pelvic floor disorder specialist. Call or book an appointment online today to learn more.
A Woman’s Guide for Urinary Incontinence
Of course, we’re a little biased when it comes to recommending a great doctor, but whether you end up choosing Dr. Ryan Stratford, another board-certified urogynecologist, or not to treat your leakage, we think the information in this guide will help you understand what’s happening with your body and give you some peace of mind. Check out our Ebook Today!
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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Pelvic floor disorders affect many women and can include urinary and fecal incontinence, constipation and pelvic floor muscle pain. Pelvic floor therapy is a treatment that has been developed to be performed by a specially trained physical therapist or nurse practitioner to help treat these different problems that can occur as the result of pelvic floor dysfunction.
When we have difficulty evacuating our body’s compensatory strategy is often to strain. This places a lot of undue stress on your pelvic floor, often leading to injury and/or prolapse.
Two common, non-surgical treatment options for stress urinary incontinence include Uresta and Poise Impressa.
Pelvic floor exercises, also called Kegel (kay-gull) exercises after Dr. Arnold Kegel who developed them, strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. These muscles play a role in supporting the bladder ad urethra.