Pelvic organ prolapse a type of pelvic floor disorder can affect many women.
Pelvic floor prolapse.
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.
Women most commonly develop pelvic organ prolapse years after childbirth after a hysterectomy or after menopause.
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.
The bulge isn t dangerous but it can be very uncomfortable.
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.
1 pelvic organ prolapse is less common than urinary or fecal incontinence but affects almost 3 of u s.