Your pelvic bones sit within the pelvic girdle. There are three bones, the sacrum and two hip bones. Within your pelvic girdle are three joints, one of which is the pubic symphysis.

How to strengthen pelvic floor. You've likely heard of Kegels: the exercise where you contract muscles as if you're trying to avoid passing gas, pretending to tighten the vagina around a tampon or ...

How to relax pelvic floor muscles. You've likely heard of Kegels: the exercise where you contract muscles as if you're trying to avoid passing gas, pretending to tighten the vagina around a tampon ...

Sometimes the joints of your pelvis are stiff or don’t move at the same time, and this can cause pelvic pain. This condition is called symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) or pregnancy-related ...

Throughout a woman’s life, various events can challenge the pelvic floor. Pregnancy, for example , increases the weight of the uterus, placing added pressure on these muscles.

While a certain amount of pelvic pain is pretty normal in pregnancy (you're growing a human after all!), Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) is a problem with the pelvis that can signal some deeper ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health has chosen pelvic floor health as the theme for the 2025 awareness week, aiming to increase education around a topic that often ...

The best hip fracture is one that never happens, right? Turns out, according to this excellent new study, that testosterone ...

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is a sneaky infection that affects the upper female reproductive tract – uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries – and is classified as an upper genital tract ...

The division’s areas of research include medical, behavioral, and surgical management of urinary and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and pelvic floor disorders in women. We receive research ...