We love treating our neighbors and friends ourselves, but we know that there are always more patients who need care than available appointments on our calendar. We have always hoped that this practice would be larger than just “the Lingenfelters.” That’s why we recently chose a new name: Summit Women’s Health.

When you need an ultrasound as part of your care, the last thing you want to do is make another appointment and drive to another place on a different day. That’s why we have in-house ultrasound — so you have one less thing to squeeze into your schedule.

Think of prenatal care as a series of regular doctor’s appointments with the ultimate purpose of guiding you through the entire pregnancy process – from the time you first discover you’re pregnant up until you deliver your baby. The goal is a simple one: maintaining your health and delivering a healthy baby.

With the summer season fast approaching, it’s time to turn your thoughts to beach weather and the glorious days of summer that lay ahead.

As a new mom, you have plenty going on. The inconvenience of postpartum urinary incontinence may be something unexpected. This involuntary bladder leakage hits when you laugh, cough, sneeze, or do something strenuous. Fully one-third of new moms experience urinary incontinence, so you’re not alone.

Urinary incontinence can be an embarrassing and uncomfortable problem to talk about. But if you’re suffering from an overactive bladder, know that you’re not alone.

In the mind of a high school student, the knee jerk reaction was, “Do I really need to know this stuff? It’ll never happen to me.” Unfortunately that same initial denial about STDs is probably all too familiar to the one in five Americans who have an STD or the estimated 68 million Americans who were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection in 2018 alone.

Menopausal symptoms, like hot flashes, are often fodder for jokes about women getting older. But for an estimated 80% of menopausal women who experience hot flashes this highly uncomfortable symptom is anything but funny.

So what exactly is endometrial ablation? It’s a procedure that eliminates the source of the problem with heavy bleeding – the lining of the uterus, also called the endometrium.

Among all the incredible feats a woman’s body bears — like carrying and birthing a child — it also bears uncomfortable and seemingly downright unfair conditions. One of those conditions that plagues millions of women? Heavy periods.

With the plethora of birth control options available today, the catch to some of them is the same as it’s always been – they only work if you remember to use them. The traditional birth control go-tos like birth control pills, condoms, and barrier methods like diaphragms are still going strong, but many of the 72 million women in the United States who use contraception are turning to longer-acting birth control methods.

Abnormal uterine bleeding can have a variety of causes, and our expert OB/GYN, Dr. Brandon Lingenfelter, outlines some of them here.