Urogynecology is a medical subspecialty related to the treatment of the female urinary system. Thus, it involves professionals specialized in urology or gynecology to treat urinary incontinence, recurrent urinary tract infections and genital prolapse for example.
Urogynecology is also a specialty of physiotherapy, aimed at the prevention and rehabilitation of problems related to the vagina, pelvic floor and rectum.
Urogynecology is used to identify and treat situations involving the female urinary system, such as:
In addition, the urogynecologist can treat fecal and urinary incontinence, which can be treated by a physical therapist through exercises that help strengthen the pelvic floor and assist in the treatment of identified changes, and physiotherapy can be performed with electrostimulation, lymphatic drainage, postural correction and exercises depending on the situation to be treated.
It is recommended to consult the urogynecologist when the family doctor identifies a disease related to the female urinary system. Thus, after identification, the patient is referred to urogynecological physiotherapy or to a gynecologist or urologist whose subspecialty is urogynecology. However, this does not prevent the patient from talking directly to the urogynecologist in the first symptoms she is experiencing.
The urogynecologist determines the treatment by evaluating the results of several tests, such as laboratory tests, imaging tests, such as x-rays, resonance and ultrasound, the study of urodynamics, and cystoscopy, which is an endoscopic test that aims to look at urinary weakness. tract, such as the urethra and bladder. Understand how cystoscopy is performed.