When the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman s pelvic organs weaken the pelvic organs can drop lower in the pelvis creating a bulge in the vagina prolapse.
Pelvic floor prolapse.
If you have pelvic organ prolapse you ll notice a bulge at the opening of the vagina.
1 pelvic organ prolapse is less common than urinary or fecal incontinence but affects almost 3 of u s.
1 pelvic organ prolapse happens more often in older women and in white and hispanic women than in younger women or women of other racial and.
In fact about one third of all women are affected by prolapse or similar conditions over their lifetime.
Women most commonly develop pelvic organ prolapse years after childbirth after a hysterectomy or after menopause.
In pelvic organ prolapse the pelvic floor muscles weaken causing one or more of the pelvic organs to fall downward into or out of the vagina.