prolapse

"I'd never even heard the term prolapse before," she says, and since talking openly about it she's realised it's often a "taboo" subject despite being very common.

A surgeon found to have left patients in "agony" after using artificial mesh to treat prolapsed bowels faces allegations he falsified medical notes.

Shakira Hassan, a specialist women's health physiotherapist, treats a wide range of conditions including pelvic pain, bladder, bowel and prolapse issues, where pelvic organs have lowered out of place.

Now, just over a year on, Miss Cotson said she lived with chronic pain, prolapse, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

She had been admitted to hospital on 7 February following a sudden loss of mobility in her lower limbs after a disc prolapse.