Female Pelvic Medicine

If you’ve ever heard someone use the expression, “a pain in the rear,” you’re pretty much hearing them refer to what is known, in medical terms, as coccygodynia. It’s tailbone pain, pure and simple. But to get more technical and explain why it happens and what you can do if you’re suffering from tailbone pain,…

Cervical ectropion, now more commonly referred to as cervical erosion or cervicalectopy, is a condition that occurs when the inner lining of the cervical canal becomes thinner than the layers of cells that cover the vaginal surface of the cervix. As a result of that thinness, the underlying blood vessels become much more visible, and…

Rectal pain isn’t something that generally comes up in conversation with many people, but it’s actually not uncommon to experience pain in the rectum without there being any clinical abnormality. Two forms of rectal pain include proctalgia fugax, which is severe, intermittent anal pain; and levator ani syndrome, which is chronic anal pain. While they…

There are several types of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to treat a hormone imbalance, though most people are generally more familiar with hormone injections, pills, or one of the various forms of hormone cream such as progesterone cream. So which is the most effective? Naturally, hormone testing will be necessary to determine which type of…