ABOUT US

Our goal is to improve the quality of life for all women. Our primary purpose is to deliver the most current treatment and therapies related to female urinary incontinence and pelvic floor disorders.

We offer our patients the highest standards of treatment our specialty - female pelvic health. We offer comprehensive evaluation and treatment in: 

• Urinary incontinence - stress and urge
• Pelvic organ prolapse with surgical and non-surgical options. We have a number of new therapeutic options available that have a very high success rate, even with recurrent pelvic organ prolapse.
• Overactive bladder
• Interstitial Cystitis
  
• Chronic pelvic pain
• Vulvodynia and Vulvar dermatological disease
• Integrating the most up-to-date medical treatments available with innovative clinical research in a patient-oriented care system.

We have developed a multi-modal therapeutic approach including:

1. We provide comprehensive consultation & evaluation for obtaining the correct diagnosis
2. We provide comprehensive treatment plans that include surgical but also non-surgical options such as the following:

• Pelvic floor therapy & rehabilitation
• Pain injection including Botox for muscle spasm & persistent pain
• Bladder instillations
• Interstim Therapy

Surgical approaches include:

1. Office based procedures for urinary incontinence
2. Pelvic pain
3. Heavy menstrual periods - ablations (in office procedure)
   
4. permanent contraception - (in office procedure)
5. We also can provide the most comprehensive approach to treating incontinence and prolapse available that requires hospital treatment in West Michigan including the following 

• Inpatient & outpatient surgery
• minimally invasive vaginal surgery
• minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery
  
• minimally invasive robotic surgery

We treat other conditions such as:

• Recurrent urinary tract infections
• Recurrent endometriosis & pain in spite of prior laparoscopic treatment
• Persistent pelvic pain post hysterectomy
• Overactive bladder with incontinence
• Heavy menstrual bleeding
• Sexual dysfunction
  

If you suffer from urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse, you are not alone. This problem occurs in many women & often they think it is part of normal aging. They are not aware that new treatment modalities are available for them.

Gaining urinary control is obtainable of out new technologies including:

• Comprehensive testing including Urodynamic testing (evaluation of bladder function)
  
• Office based slings (minor surgery for treating incontinence).
• Treating irritative bladder conditions such as interstitial cystitis .
• Pelvic floor therapy to improve both stress control & urge control.
• Dietary consultation regarding bladder irritants.

Our team is involved with the newest research techniques for correction of both prolapse & urinary incontinence.

 The institute physicians include:

• Dr. Douglas Van Drie , the founder of the institute and a national leader in treatment in female urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Dr. Van Drie has incorporated a significant percentage of his practice has been involved in female pelvic medicine since 1980, but since the year 2008 he has focused his expertise primarily in the development of female pelvic medicine and the newer treatments options in this field. Dr. Van Drie has trained physicians in the United States and Canada in newer surgical techniques. He has been in international research groups to make sure that existing newer techniques have solid research bases for their use.

• Dr. Michael Bennett is a leading expert in complex surgery, especially robotic surgery. He is a known educator in the field of Urogynecology. Dr. Michael Bennett is also the institute director of research and overseas our new drugs and surgical trials that will benefit women in the female pelvic medicine field.

• Dr. Jason Bennett devotes his full-time practice to female pelvic medicine and specializes in complex cases of pelvic pain, overactive bladder, and brings special expertise to our group in using multiple modalities for treatment of pain, overactive bladder and interstitial cystitis localized pain injections, Botox for muscle spasm and Interstim for complex overactive bladder conditions.

If you have questions or need consultation on other related female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery matters, please contact us at (616) 588-1800.