Monday, February 13, 2012

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Expert_badge Tasha Mulligan MPT

Tasha Mulligan MPT

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I am a Women's Health Physical Therapist

Weighing your options, Knowing your risks...

When you begin to experience incontinence symptoms, you have several options or directions to go to find a solution. These options range from non-invasive exercise programs aimed at strengthening your pelvic floor muscles to surgical procedures inserting a mesh into your body to assist in appropriately supporting your abdominal organs. I am not... Read moreChevron
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Expert_badge Jasmine Schmidt

Jasmine Schmidt

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Incontinence Educator

In the News: Incontinence Surgery Problems

In the news this week is a report on problems with the mesh sling surgery used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Apparently there have been about 1,000 reports of problems with the mesh sling, including pain, recurrence of the original problem, and infection.   Stress urinary incontinence is the type of leakage... Read moreChevron
Ginger

another victim of mesh erosion

Hello!  I am another victim of mesh erosion and certainly am concerned about where to go from here.  I wish that I had never heard the words!  Anyway, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get our Drs. to take this stuff out of me!  My new surgeon wants to cut the bad part out and sew me together, but I am only 45 and concerned... Read moreChevron

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