Category: urinary incontinence

Stressed About Incontinence? Management and Treatment Tips for a Common, Sometimes Embarrassing Ailment

It’s been said that everyone enjoys a good laugh, but for a large percentage of people, those chuckles are accompanied by urine leakage. Yes, we’re talking about urinary incontinence—a health taboo that really needs to be erased for good—because-guess what? It’s common! According to the Urology Care Foundation, up to one-third of adults in the United…


6 Pelvic-Floor Exercises to Stop Urinary Leakage and Frequent Urination

Do you sometimes accidentally pee a little when you sneeze, laugh, or pass gas? It is estimated that 24 to 45 percent of women and 11 to 34 percent of older men worldwide suffer from a varying degree of urinary leakage, also known as urinary incontinence (UI). Urinary leakage is often related to the over-relaxation…


3 Ways to Reduce Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence (also known as involuntary urination, or urinary leakage) is a common and sometimes embarrassing problem that increases in frequency as we age and with organ function deterioration. According to a 2019 review of research published in the periodical Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, approximately 20 million women and 6 million men in the…


Totally Reversible, Urinary Incontinence Isn’t ‘Normal Aging’

The relationship between low back pain and urinary incontinence has been observed by physiotherapists for some time and confirmed by many studies. A deeply personal and relentlessly taboo issue, incontinence is rarely divulged—in doctors’ offices or with friends—leaving many women to believe the misconception that leaking urine is part of normal aging. In fact, regardless…