By: Michael Garcia-Roig, M.D. As pediatric urologists, one of the most common patients we see in the office is a child struggling with voiding dysfunction. This umbrella term includes symptoms of urinary incontinence, urgency, frequency, and sensation of incomplete emptying. One of the less obvious but most significant contributors to this is constipation. This can be […]
The HAWK (Help Awaiting Wet Kids) Clinic at Georgia Urology specializes in treating children with urinary incontinence issues and voiding dysfunction (abnormal urination). These issues can happen in 20-30% of kids and can happen for a variety of reasons including (and most often) voiding behaviors, anatomy, or abnormal function. Wetting and other symptoms of voiding […]
In late 2019, Charles Farmer, a 29-year-old project manager, began experiencing progressive pain in his groin area, hoping it would subside. The pain continued over the course of several months, and he eventually decided to visit a doctor. Unfortunately, Farmer heard the dreaded word no patient wants to hear: Cancer. After being diagnosed with testicular […]
