Colette Marie Stefan

Women continue to undergo surgery for prolapse at a rate of hundreds of thousands per year. However, all so-called pelvic floor surgeries are associated with significant risk and high failure rates. Over the past 150 years, every conceivable operation for prolapse has been tried, and all have failed. The reason why is that the gynecologic understanding of the female pelvis is based on a 500-year-old anatomical misunderstanding.