Female genital prolapse is caused most commonly by pregnancy, labor, and childbirth.

This can also be a symptom of an internal female genital prolapse, a condition most often caused by child birth.

For women, the most common conditions treated are genital prolapse, disc disorders and cataracts.

Uterine prolapse is a form of female genital prolapse.

Genital prolapse: As women age, the muscles that support pelvic structures loosen and the uterus, bladder or other tissues may begin to sag.

"New Techniques in Genital Prolapse Surgery".

Uterine prolapse (and Female genital prolapse)

Anatomie und Ätiologie der Genitalprolapse beim Weibe, 1907 - Anatomy and etiology of female genital prolapse.

Typical of Dr. Nichols's practice would be a woman in her 70's, incontinent, with genital prolapse, in which pelvic organs drop and sometimes protrude through the vaginal opening.

Assessment of pelvic floor strength during gynaecological examination may help to identify women with fascial defects of the pelvic floor, as well as those at risk of genital prolapse or urinary incontinence.

Today pelvic floor exercises are widely held as first-line treatment for urinary stress incontinence and female genital prolapse, with evidence supporting its use from systematic reviews of randomized trials in the Cochrane Library amongst others.

In his clinic he devoted himself to the surgery of ovarian tumours, uterus myomatosus and genital prolapse, but also to the diagnosis and treatment of supposed inflammations of the cervix and endometrium as cause of psychological disorders.