Urinary Incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine which is objectively demonstrable and causes a social or hygienic problem. It is estimated that anywhere between 25-70% of women suffer from this problem. However the prevalence of urinary incontinence in the community has been severely underestimated. This is because 40% women feel embarrassed to talk about this problem to their doctors and >60% women perceived urine loss as a normal consequence of ageing. Less than half the individuals living in the community with Urinary Incontinence seek treatment.
Incontinence is defined as a condition when urine leaks involuntarily when a person laughs, sneezes, or lifts weights. This is mostly seen in women and not very uncommon. The ability of the bladder to control the opening is lost when the muscles supporting it lose strength for various reasons. Three major factors that contribute to…
Overactive Bladder, also called OAB in short is a condition when a person has to urinate frequently and when he/she is unable to hold the urge until he/she reaches the toilet. The person may have wake up multiple times during sleep to urinate which can affect him/her physically and mentally. If the frequent urination problem…
Women’s pelvic muscles lose strength with mainly 3 factors: Pregnancy, Child birth, especially with vaginal child birth Age If you haven’t read our previous article that talks about ‘How pregnancy affects the pelvic floor muscles’, please click on the below link and read through. Effect of Pregnancy and Child birth on pelvic floor The loss…
When a woman gets pregnant, what we see is the changes in her body externally. But, there are several other changes that happen internally in her body that are not visible. The physical changes that happen in a woman’s body during pregnancy are detrimental to the muscles, nerves, connecting tissues in her pelvis region. Weakening…
How men can manage Urinary Incontinence? Urinary Incontinence, a medical condition where a person is unable to control his/her bladder and the urine leaks out. Abdomen can feel pressurised when a person bends, lifts objects, sneezes, coughs etc. While this is categorized as one type of incontinence, there are other types of incontinence where the…
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Pelvic floor is formed by a group of muscles and ligaments in the pelvic region. They stretch like a band and contract as needed from front to back or side to side. Pelvis contains soft organs such as bladder, rectum, uterus (in women) , prostate etc. The muscles around these organs support…
Ureterocele – a duplex anamoly In a human body, kidneys filters and removes waste matter and excess water from the blood. This waste is transferred to the urinary bladder through ‘ureters’. In normal conditions, one kidney will have one ureter connected to the bladder. In the lower side of the bladder, there will be another…
Urotrauma – What is it? An injury to urinary tract or reproductive organs is termed as ‘Urotrauma’. The cause of the injury can be anything such as an accident, a fight, bad fall from a height hurting your abdominal area, consumption or breathing of chemicals, injury due a weapon/tool etc. If any of the organs…
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