What is Uterine Prolapse? Explain the degrees of uterine prolapse?

"What is prolapse? Anything getting weakened and sagging. So what is uterine prolapse? See, the uterus is very well supported by a network of muscles and ligaments in our body, so it is held up in its place. What happens with repeated trauma of these muscles and these ligaments is that they are not able to hold and you know give that kind of support to the uterus. In those cases, the uterus will gradually start slipping, and with further slipping, there will be a time when it will begin to protrude out of the vagina, and this is called prolapse. And when we talk about the stages of prolapse it is this which is what we are staging then it is like it is sagging it is lowered down in the vagina the patient can feel it but it is not seen outside the vagina. So that's a stage one prolapse when it is at the introitus. It can be easily seen when you go to the doctor for an examination can be very easily seen. So that's a stage two prolapse. Stage three is when it comes out of the vagina that's a stage three prolapse and the final stage that's stage four that's called procedentia. Precedential is when the whole of the uterus is out of the vagina. So what are the risk factors who would more likely get prolapse in their life so those who have a history of vaginal deliveries especially traumatic vaginal deliveries, prolonged labor, or maybe attended by you know untrained dais or there was a delivery of a large baby and it was a difficult birth. So those are the patients or there have been some pelvic surgeries and there is some trauma to those ligaments and muscles so those are the patients. Then anything that increases the intraabdominal pressure say a chronic cough may be due to asthma COPD any lung conditions or chronic constipation. So anything that increases abdomen pressure would again push the uterus down. Then the obese patients are the people who are at risk for getting prolapsed"