“It felt like my stomach was on the verge of rupturing,” Monica Eryn Johnson told PEOPLE when describing her symptoms She said she eventually learned her OB-GYN had known about her fibroid diagnosis ...

During a pelvic laparoscopy, your doctor uses an instrument called a laparoscope to examine your reproductive organs. A laparoscope is a long, thin tube with a high-intensity light and high-resolution ...

An external pelvic fixator is a surgical procedure that stabilizes a broken hip or pelvic bone. A surgeon will use small screws, pins, and carbon fiber bars to stabilize the fracture. Doctors may use ...

Pelvic reconstructive surgery treats pelvic organ prolapse, which can occur due to factors like childbirth or chronic coughing. Recovery varies depending on the type of surgery. Pelvic reconstructive ...

As many as one in four women in the U.S. suffer from chronic pelvic pain. A lot of times medication, steroid injections or physical therapy will help, but for women whose pelvic pain comes from the ...

A long-time surgical standard for pelvic organ prolapse repair prevailed in a comparison against a newer technique that currently predominates in some parts of the world. Sacrospinous hysteropexy ...

As many as one in four women in the U.S. suffer from chronic pelvic pain. A lot of times medication, steroid injections or physical therapy will help, but for women whose pelvic pain comes from the ...

A woman said she was forced to have complete pelvic reconstructive surgery after her doctors ignored her diagnosis for nearly a decade. Monica Eryn Johnson, 40 — a New York-based beauty entrepreneur, ...

“My body had been a ticking time bomb, screaming from the inside out for help,” Monica Eryn Johnson told PEOPLE A woman said she was forced to have complete pelvic reconstructive surgery in late 2025 ...