Articles Tagged With: Incontinence
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What Do the Urinary Microbiota and Incontinence Have to Do With Each Other?
Increased diversity of the microbiota in women is associated with urgency urinary incontinence symptoms but not with stress urinary incontinence symptoms.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Constipation, and Quality of Life in Women
Irritable bowel syndrome has a negative effect on women’s quality of life and affects one-third of women who present for care with fecal incontinence.
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Pelvic Floor Changes in First Pregnancy: How Do They Affect Quality of Life?
Nulliparous women experience worsening urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and perineal pain in pregnancy. Urinary incontinence symptoms are associated with a negative effect on quality of life.
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Nocturnal Enuresis: Are Your Patients Affected?
Nocturnal enuresis was prevalent in women seen in a urogynecology setting and can be associated with nocturia, overactive bladder symptoms, and stress incontinence.
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Physical Activity, Exercise, Strength, Aging, and the Pelvic Floor
While exploring broad themes of exercise and obesity, this special feature will focus on physical activity in relationship to the pelvic floor.
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The Effect of Major Depression on Quality of Life After Surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence
Women with major depression undergoing surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence have worse condition-specific quality of life than non-depressed women. Postoperatively, depressed and non-depressed women have similar incontinence severity and quality of life.
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Accidental Bowel Leakage
Although there has been increased awareness of pelvic floor disorders in recent years, fecal incontinence, defined by the unintentional loss of solid or liquid stool, remains a silent epidemic.
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Urinary Urge Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Pelvic floor physical therapy with myofascial release techniques improves urinary symptoms and provides an alternate option to medications and more invasive therapies.
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Acupuncture for Urinary Incontinence in Women
Dehlendorf C, Assefi N. Acupuncture for urinary incontinence in women. 2002;5:46-49. -
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