Our services
Novant Health Urogynecology – Charlotte offers remarkable urogynecologic care to women with common and complex urinary, pelvic and vaginal concerns. Our providers will listen to you, and then use advanced tools when necessary to invesetigate your issues. Then, they will work with you to develop the right surgical or nonsurgical treatment plan for you.
Conditions we treat include:
- Urinary incontinence
- Overactive bladder
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Cystitis
- Bowel control conditions (fecal incontinence)
- Pelvic pain
- Bladder pain
- Emptying disorders
- Cosmetic vaginal issues
We offer urogynecologic testing including:
- Anal manometry to assess fecal incontinence
- Cystoscopy to investigate problems tied to the urethra or bladder
- Electrodiagnostic testing to diagnose incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain
- Pelvic muscle weakness assessment
- Ultrasound services
- Urodynamic testing (complex bladder testing) to look at the overall function of the bladder and urinary tract
Nonsurgical treatment options we offer include:
- Pelvic floor strengthening exercises
- Fluid and dietary management
- Biofeedback training (to teach when to contract and relax pelvic floor muscles)
- Electrical stimulation therapy (to retrain the nerves that control the bladder)
- Behavior modification for bladder retraining
- Pessary treatment to reduce pain from a prolapsed uterus or vagina
- Medicinal treatments to relax bladder muscles or prevent bladder contraction
- BOTOX to relax bladder muscles
- Collagen periurethral injections to restore support to the bladder or urethra
- Hormone replacement therapy
Surgical treatment options we offer include:
- Procedures to treat vaginal vault prolapse including abdominal sacral colpoperineopexy, vaginal vault suspension, enterocele repair, colporrhaphy, paravaginal repair and culdoplasty
- Hysterectomy procedures
- Vaginal cosmetic surgery to repair the vagina’s appearance after childbirth or injury
- Urinary incontinence procedures including culposuspension, laparoscopic burch procedure, bladder suspension surgery, vaginal sling placement, interstim electrical implants and ureteral stent placements
- Fistula repairs
- Fecal incontinence procedures