What sets us apart
At Ascension Seton in Austin, Texas, our care team includes fellowship-trained female pelvic reconstructive surgeons and advanced practice providers. We use the latest technology to perform specialized procedures and offer personalized treatment options with a focus on relieving symptoms and increasing your overall quality of life.
Pelvic floor disorders symptoms
Common symptoms of pelvic floor disorders include:
- Bladder pain
- Fistula, genitourinary and rectovaginal (connection between organs, or an organ and skin)
- Incontinence (loss of bladder or bowel control)
- Overactive bladder
- Pelvic and uterus pain
- Pelvic organ prolapse (when one or more organs (uterus, bowel or bladder) drop into the vagina causing a bulge or discomfort)
- Perineal tear
- Sexual discomfort
- Stress Urinary Incontinence (leaking urine when you laugh, cough or sneeze)
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Uterine fibroids
How we diagnose pelvic floor conditions
Pelvic health specialists treat conditions affecting the female pelvic floor anatomy that may have become weakened due to vaginal delivery, reaching menopausal or postmenopausal age, or other developmental causes.
Conditions we diagnose and treat:
- Anal or urinary incontinence
- Bladder hernia (cystocele)
- Fistulas
- Frequent urinary tract infection (UTIs)
- Labial hypertrophy
- Overactive bladder
- Painful bladder syndrome (interstitial cystitis)
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Perineal descent
- Post-hysterectomy prolapse
- Posterior vaginal prolapse (rectocele)
- Urethral diverticulum
- Uterine prolapse
How we treat pelvic floors conditions
At Ascension Seton, we work with you on a personalized care plan that may include therapeutic and surgical care. Your care plan may include treatments such as:
- Anal sphincter repair
- Bladder BOTOX® injection
- Bladder instillation
- Bladder prolapse (cystocele) repair
- Complex urodynamic testing
- Continence control stimulator insertion
- Cystourethroscopy
- Cystoscopy
- da Vinci® sacrocolpopexy
- Enterocele repair
- Hysterectomy
- Labiaplasty
- Medication management
- Mesh-free robotic colpopexy
- Mid-urethral sling
- Pelvic floor physical therapy
- Pessary fitting
- Post-hysterectomy vaginal prolapse repair
- Rectocele repair
- Rectovaginal fistula repair
- Robot-assisted colpopexy
- Sling made of autologous fascia lata
- Suprapubic bladder catheterization
- Transvaginal prolapse repairs
- Urethroplasty
- Vaginal prolapse repair