Extend your learning
- Find out about the different types of prolapse by reading the relevant section of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists leaflet
- What is meant by an instrumental delivery?
- Remind yourself of the BMI scale
- If you haven’t come across them before, vaginal pessaries for prolapse can look eye watering. Read about the different types, when each is used and the risks they pose in a leaflet produced by the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Take a look at the video and leaflets on pelvic floor exercises published by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- The use of mesh for vaginal wall prolapse has been in the news following safety concerns
- Find out what NICE has to say about the the use of mesh for vaginal wall prolapse.
