UAB Division of Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

The specialists of the UAB Women’s Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery division provide professional and sensitive care for women with incontinence and pelvic floor disorders. When you visit our division, you are provided with a variety of highly effective, non-surgical approaches to incontinence, including medications, behavioral therapies and support devices. For women needing surgery, the latest, minimally invasive techniques usually allow women to go home the same day and recover quickly.

If you experience leaking of urine or difficulty controlling your bowels, you aren’t alone. Half of all women are likely to experience some incontinence in their lifetime, and about 10 percent will have surgery for incontinence and/or prolapse—a bulging of the bladder or vagina often caused by weakened muscles from pregnancy or childbirth. Fortunately, most incontinence problems can be successfully treated. Women will find revolutionary new options available today, many of which were researched and developed right here at UAB.

Our Services
Our physicians offer a full spectrum of one-on-one services for patients, including:

• Comprehensive clinical evaluation
• Evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of urge urinary incontinence and overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence, bowel incontinence, uterine prolapse and other pelvic relaxation problems
• Office fitting and placement of vaginal support device (pessary) for prolapse and stress urinary incontinence
• Behavioral therapy including pelvic floor muscle therapy for urinary and bowel incontinence (biofeedback and electrical stimulation as needed)
• Surgery for pelvic organ prolapse and stress incontinence including new minimally invasive vaginal and laparoscopic approaches
• Neurostimulation therapy for refractory urge urinary incontinence, bowel incontinence and voiding dysfunction
• Botox therapy for refractory urge urinary incontinence

Our Physicians

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Our Treatments
We provide a treatment plan for each patient’s individual needs. Our staff is experience in discussing and evaluating these sensitive problems. A comprehensive evaluation may include:

• Physical examination similar to that which you undergo during your annual exam and Pap smear
• Urinalysis
• Bladder studies
• Cystoscopy, in which a thin tube is place inside the urethra to view the inside of the urethra and bladder
• Urodynamic testing, an evaluation to check the function of the lower urinary tract, which consists of the bladder, urethra and the voluntary and involuntary sphincter muscles
• Bowel studies
• Anorectal physiology studies, tests to evaluate the anal sphincter, pelvic muscles, nerve function and rectal function

Our Facility
UAB Urogynecology Care and Continence Clinic is loacated on the first floor of The Kirklin Clinic at 2000 6th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL.

Make an Appointment
To make an appointment or get more information, call (205) 996-7870.