Ut Southwestern Pelvic Floor Clinic

The university of texas southwestern medical center 5323 harry hines blvd.

Ut southwestern pelvic floor clinic.

A number of factors can lead to pelvic floor dysfunction. With practices in both ut southwestern university hospitals and clinics and parkland health hospital system our clinical services provide thorough assessment careful diagnosis and individualized treatment for women suffering from pelvic floor and urinary tract disorders. The female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery clinic offers a full range of surgical and non surgical treatments for urinary and pelvic floor conditions. Kelly scott specializes in the diagnosis nonsurgical management and physical rehabilitation of pelvic floor disorders and she s one of only about a dozen pm r physicians in the u s.

Commonly referred to as urogynecology female pelvic medicine is the subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology that treats women with pelvic floor disorders such as urinary incontinence overactive bladder voiding dysfunction fecal incontinence pelvic organ prolapse pelvic pain urinary tract infections and interstitial cystitis. While pregnancy and childbirth are common causes in women both men and women can experience pelvic floor muscle tension spasm or weakness as a result of trauma scar tissue surgical complications poor body posture straining to defecate and many other factors that can contribute to pelvic floor disorders. At ut southwestern medical center our multidisciplinary team offers a full range of state of the art diagnostic techniques as well as nonsurgical surgical and robotic treatment options for pelvic floor disorders. Research being performed at ut southwestern shows promising treatments might reduce the recurrence of pelvic floor dysfunction symptoms.

Dallas texas 75390 phone 214 648 3111 institutional resume student mental health resources. She has been the program director of the female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery fellowship since 2019. Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery clinic at outpatient building the urogynecology and pelvic floor disorders clinic at ut southwestern medical center offers a full range of both surgical and non surgical treatments for urinary and pelvic floor conditions. Pelvic floor disorders affect millions of women and men of all ages often compromising their quality of life.

She specializes in female urology pelvic floor reconstructive surgery pelvic organ prolapse incontinence and voiding dysfunction. An ongoing clinical trial led by ut southwestern s david rahn m d is examining the effectiveness of vaginal estrogen a supplemental nonsurgical therapy to reduce symptom recurrence and spare.