Specialty Description
Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery focuses on the surgical and non-surgical treatment of pelvic floor disorders, which include pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, and pelvic pain (1).
Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery physicians provide consultation services and comprehensive management of women with pelvic floor disorders, including urinary incontinence, lower urinary tract disorders, pelvic organ prolapse, and childbirth-related injuries. Comprehensive management includes the preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures necessary for the total care of the female patient with these conditions, complications, and sequelae resulting from pelvic floor disorders (2).
Obstetrician gynecologists are physicians who, by virtue of satisfactory completion of a defined course of graduate medical education, possess special knowledge, skills, and professional capability in the medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system across the life span and women’s health conditions, such that it distinguishes them from other physicians and enables them to serve as primary physicians for women, and as consultants to other physicians (3).