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Urinary Incontinence
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ing squeezing your pelvic floor muscles
when you have the urge to urinate, and
Chesapeake Urology can assist with
resources and physical therapy.
Once someone is diagnosed with urinary incontinence, there are treatment
options.
“First, we would start with behavioral
notifications – looking at weight loss as
an option, improving blood sugar, limiting bladder irritants, and then physical
therapy. There are pelvic floor physical
therapists who specialize in helping to
strengthen and support the pelvic floor
that can help with both types of incontinence. As far as overactive bladder
and urgent continents, feeling like you
need to urinate and not getting there in
time or urinating all the time, there are
medications. There are also procedures
such as Botox injections in the bladder,
or implantable stimulators that help reg-
ulate the nerves of the bladder,” says Dr.
Gracely.
The stigma and embarrassment
of talking to a physician about urinary incontinence is something that Dr.
Gracely still encounters. In fact, she
believes the statistic stating that 62% of
women experience urinary incontinence
is lower than the actual number, as
women tend to not disclose their symptoms to their physician.
“It’s important to remind women and
men that even though this is a common condition, it’s not ‘normal.’ It’s
not something that you just have to
suffer through as a part of aging,” she
stresses. “It is OK to ask for help and
seek treatment because there are myriad
treatment options available that we can
select to match each individual’s quality
of life. And the whole goal is to improve
quality of life, right? We want them to
be able to live their lives without urine
leakage restricting what they do and live
their best life.”
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