Fecal incontinence

Fecal incontinence is the inability to control bowel movements, causing stool to unexpectedly leak from the anus. This treatable condition often goes undiagnosed because patients are too embarrassed to mention their symptoms.

Our program is the only one of its kind in western Michigan. Fellowship-trained colorectal surgeons lead the clinical team and are uniquely qualified to treat the condition.

Depending on the severity of the symptoms, fecal incontinence may be successfully treated with nonsurgical interventions, such as diet and behavior modification, exercise therapies to restore sphincter muscle control and medications or nerve stimulation using InterStim® therapy. For more severe cases, such as rectal prolapse or rectocele, surgery is indicated.