Sentences with phrase «women avoid surgery»

A few years ago I had a discussion with a physiotherapist who specialises in pelvic floor weakness and who recommended that women avoid surgery since each operation holds the potential for more side effects.

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Saying life isn't fair is too glib for my liking; «cultural happenings» are fairly trivial compared with a service (VBAC) that enables many women to avoid further surgery and have more children.

ICAN provides information and support to women planning for a vaginal birth and wishing to avoid unnecessary cesareans — whether they are healing from cesarean surgery, planning a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) or preparing for their first birth experience.

For example, women who achieve VBAC avoid major abdominal surgery and have lower rates of hemorrhage, thromboembolism, and infection, and a shorter recovery period than women who have an elective repeat cesarean delivery (2, 3, 7, 9, 33).

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Cewomen don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical CeWomen's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Chen — together with clinical partners C. Keith Ozaki, MD, FACS, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has expertise in leg ischemia, and Joseph Woo, MD, the head of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University — have developed a patch that fosters the growth of new vessels while avoiding some of the problems of other approaches.

So I called Joshua Copel, MD, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive sciences, and pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, and asked him whether a woman with such a debilitating condition should undergo or avoid the curative surgery.

The other option that doctors give women with fibroids is surgery — and most of us, quite rightly, want to avoid invasive procedures as much as possible — especially as the scar tissue that can develop from this surgery can complicate pregnancy.

With the Hab It program there are countless stories of how women have now avoided surgery and feel as though they have regained control of their life.

Pregnant women or patients about to undergo surgery should also avoid large doses of garlic, or at least talk to their health professional before taking it.