General Practitioners

• Sleep Disorders
  Psychological conditions can interfere with sexual feelings and cause erectile dysfunction. Depression, anxiety, stress and relationship problems can trigger impotence. Treating those conditions may relieve problems with erectile function.
• Male Infertility
  Varicocele is the swelling of the veins that drain the testicle. This can cause low sperm production and decreased sperm quality. Varicocele is the most common cause of male infertility and can be treated with surgery.
• Emergency Care
  Chronic Care Management is an initiative started by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage medical practices to identify patients with two or more chronic conditions, determine changes in their health, and to help manage these changes. The program is a preventative measure to avoid unnecessary emergency room or hospital visits. It is also meant to minimize readmission to hospitals after patient release.
• Constipation
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Urinary Incontinence
  Urinary incontinence is the loss of bladder control, varying from a slight loss of urine to complete inability to control urination. There are two types of urinary incontinence: stress incontinence and urge incontinence. Stress incontinence mainly affects women; urge incontinence affects both men and women.
• Diarrhea

Gynecologists

• Female Infertility
• Endometriosis
  Bethany focuses on treating various pelvic pain disorders, pre-/post-op prostatectomy, urinary incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency, constipation, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, pain with sexual intercourse, erectile dysfunction, and many more diagnoses. She has had training in exercise prescription, connective tissue/ myofascial release techniques, dry needling, internal and external pelvic floor muscle treatment, cupping techniques, electric stimulation, and other treatment modalities. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and keeps up to date on current research to give you the best pelvic health physical therapy care available.
• Pelvic Pain
• Pregnancy
• Labor and Delivery
  This pain management alternative has been used in a variety of facilities including aesthetics, labor and delivery, orthopedics, plastic surgery, urology, dermatology, hospitals and surgery centers.

Internists

• Bladder Cancer
  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has identified the list below as chronic conditions. Along with these medical conditions, Urologic chronic conditions include Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), Overactive Bladder (OAB), Bladder Cancer, Renal Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Ureter Cancer and Renal Pelvis Cancer.
• Urology
  We have 20 urology clinic locations serving the Dallas Metroplex within a 120-mile radius. Urology Clinics of North Texas has 47 urologists on staff. We also have a physician assistant and a nurse practitioner in two offices. Each office shares the same EMR, therefore sharing the same database which gives us great potential for finding research candidates. All our clinical research is conducted at the centralized Clinical Trials Office (CTO) in Dallas, Texas.
• Kidney Stones
  Kidney stones are a buildup of minerals and salts that harden inside your kidneys. Kidney stones can affect any part of your urinary tract including the kidneys, bladder and ureters. Some stones stay in the kidneys and do not cause any problems. Symptoms of kidney stones are normally experienced when the stone moves around in your kidney or passes into your ureter.
• Interstitial Cystitis
• Urinary Tract Infection
  A urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs when bacteria enters your urethra and travels up into your bladder causing painful urination. Even though the urinary system is designed to flush out bacteria, occasionally these defenses fail. The bacteria in the bladder can continue to multiply, causing the infection. When left untreated, the bacteria can travel into the kidneys.
• Prostate Cancer
  Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths. When diagnosed at an early stage there are many curative treatment options. Radiation is one of those options. During radiation treatment, and external energy source is used to deliver lethal energy to the prostate to destroy prostate cancer cells. Many side effects from radiation stem from the energy that is delivered to nearby organs including the rectum. That is where the SpaceOAR Hydrogel can help.

Neurologists

• Autism
• Multiple Sclerosis
  Overactive bladder is more common in patients who have urinary tract infections, bladder stones, excess consumption of caffeine or alcohol, neurological disorders, such as stroke or multiple sclerosis, or old age.

Psychiatrists

• Depression
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  If a chronic health condition or underlying condition may be causing your ED, further tests may need to be done. Blood tests and urine analysis can signal the cause of your erectile dysfunction. Occasionally an ultrasound will be performed to see blood flow.
• MRI
  Blood in the urine that is visible to the naked eye or gross hematuria is typically red, pink, or brown. To determine the cause of the blood in your urine, your doctor will do a physical exam, discuss your medical history, and conduct a urine analysis. If the cause cannot be identified from those, you may need imaging such as a CT or MRI or cystoscopy, a scope inserted into your urethra.
• X-Rays
• Computed Tomography
  The first step to diagnosing kidney stones is to take a urine sample. Blood or mineral deposits in the urine signal kidney stones. Blood tests may also reveal minerals in your blood and help doctors monitor the health of your kidneys. If blood and urine tests show signs of kidney stones, imaging tests may be done to show where the stones are located. Abdominal x-rays may reveal large kidney stones, while CT Scans reveal very small stones.
• Chemotherapy
  Sperm DNA damage, which can be caused by infections, tobacco use, varicoceles, drugs and chemotherapy, and hormonal factors.
• Radiation Therapy
  Recent advances in technology have allowed physicians to develop a sophisticated radiation technique called: IMRT-IGRT, which stands for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy – Image Guided Radiation Therapy.

Surgeons

• Orthopedics
  The low intensity acoustic waves that Shockwave Therapy uses have been utilized worldwide to treat thousands of men in cardiology, orthopedics and urology, with a long safety record. As with any treatment, there are some risks, but they are rare.*
• Minimally Invasive Surgery
  Depending on patient factors such as age, general health, and the severity of symptoms, enlarged prostate may be treated with active surveillance, medication or minimally invasive surgery.
• Vasectomy
  Vasectomy, or male sterilization, is a minor surgery that blocks sperm from reaching the semen that is ejaculated from the penis. A vasectomy is a permanent way to prevent pregnancy. During a vasectomy, the vas deferens tubes are cut or blocked to prevent sperm from leaving the testicles. The sperm stay in the testicles and are naturally absorbed by the body. Vasectomies do not change the ability to ejaculate and they do not change anything about the semen.
• Robotic Surgery
  Using the robot, these arms are controlled by the surgeon from a computer console next to the patient. The surgeon is in complete control throughout the entire case; however, by utilizing the robot they get improved vision, fine motor control, and access to sometime difficult to reach anatomical locations. Robotic surgery has been shown to result in decreased pain and blood loss as well as a shorter hospital stay.
• Hysterectomy
  Urinary incontinence is more common with age, due to risk factors such as menopause and enlarged prostate. Incontinence is also more common in pregnant women, those with prior hysterectomy or prostatectomy, those with neurologic conditions, and some medications.

Plastic Surgeons

• Botox
  Treatment options can vary based on the severity of incontinence. Treatments can include behavioral techniques such as bladder training and fluid management, pelvic floor muscle exercises, medication, Botox, or surgery.
• Plastic Surgery
• Laparoscopic Surgery
  Many major surgeries are being performed with the use of “robots” in operating rooms. Robotic assisted surgery is not truly a robot in the sense it does not function on its own. It is a form of laparoscopic surgery performed with the use of small instruments placed through tiny incisions.

Dermatologists

• Dermatology
• Lesions
  A transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. This is generally indicated for patients with an elevated Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) or an abnormal rectal exam. It is performed in an office-based setting using local anesthesia. While the ultrasound is good at imaging the overall prostate anatomy, it is not very good at detecting cancerous lesions. Therefore, biopsies are traditionally performed using a mapping technique to sample certain areas of the prostate where we know cancer tends to form but can not target specifically concerning areas.

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
  Abi Offringa, PT, DPT is a Physical Therapist at Urology Clinics of North Texas. She received her clinical Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. She completed months of clinical rotations with the main focus on sports medicine at the beginning of her career. She is now focusing on pelvic floor issues after being recruited to be a part of the UCNT pelvic health physical therapy team.
• Physical Therapy
  Bethany Davidson PT, DPT, PRPC is a pelvic health physical therapist and Director of Physical Therapy at UCNT. She received her clinical Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX. After working as a pelvic health physical therapist for 2 years, she earned her Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC), which distinguishes her as an expert in the field of pelvic rehabilitation. She has been a pelvic health physical therapist with UCNT since January 2021. Prior to that, she worked at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, TX.
• Manual Therapy
  Abi is most interested in treating pre-/post-partum women, constipation, urinary incontinence especially with athletes and weightlifters, pain with sexual intercourse, erectile dysfunction, and many more diagnoses. She is Barbell Rehab Method Certified and has training in exercise prescription, dry needling, manual therapy, cupping techniques, electric stimulation, internal and external pelvic floor muscle treatment, and many other treatment modalities that focus on the patient as a whole. She is an avid researcher and stays on top of current research in order to provide best clinical practice and education for patients.