Healthy Bowel Habits: Don’t take your bowel health for granted
When we have difficulty evacuating our body’s compensatory strategy is often to strain. This places a lot of undue stress on your pelvic floor, often leading to injury and/or prolapse.
When we have difficulty evacuating our body’s compensatory strategy is often to strain. This places a lot of undue stress on your pelvic floor, often leading to injury and/or prolapse.
Two common, non-surgical treatment options for stress urinary incontinence include Uresta and Poise Impressa.
Pelvic floor exercises, also called Kegel (kay-gull) exercises after Dr. Arnold Kegel who developed them, strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. These muscles play a role in supporting the bladder ad urethra.
Sacral Neuromodulation Therapy (SNT) is a surgical therapy designed to help women with symptoms of overactive bladder, urinary retention, and fecal incontinence.
There are additional treatment options that can help control overactive (OAB) symptoms. One of these treatment options is called Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation, also known as PTNS.
Is your daily schedule controlled by your bladder? Do you know where every single bathroom is within a 20-mile radius of your home? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you may have symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB).