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Menopause and Bladder Control Management

Or you might notice leaking when you’re lifting something heavy or doing something that puts pressure on your bladder. Some women wake up several t...

Kegel Exercises: Treating Male Urinary Incontinence

When you’re first starting, it may be easier to do Kegel exercises lying down, so your muscles aren’t fighting against gravity. Remember not to ten...

Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Pelvic organ prolapse, a type of pelvic floor disorder, affects almost 3% of U.S. women. If you think you may have pelvic organ prolapse, talk to y...

Overactive Bladder in Children

Overactive bladder can cause urinary incontinence, which is the involuntary release of urine. Another cause of overactive bladder is a condition ca...

Mixed Incontinence

Millions of Americans suffer from symptoms of urinary incontinence, the inability to control urination. If you have problems with incontinence, it'...

Prostate Cancer: Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence, or the loss of the ability to control urination, is common in men who have had surgery or radiation for prostate cancer. Beca...

Functional Incontinence

Urinary incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine, affects an estimated 25 million Americans, mostly women. Although there are several types of i...

Overactive Bladder (OAB)

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a “gotta go now” feeling. A woman’s pelvic floor muscles are like a sling that holds up their uterus and bladder. Docto...

Urge Incontinence

Two biofeedback techniques are timed voiding and bladder training. To do Kegel exercises, pretend you are trying to stop the flow of urine (althoug...

Stress Incontinence

Urinary stress incontinence occurs when an activity such as coughing, sneezing, or exercising causes a small amount of urine to leak from the ureth...

Overflow Incontinence

Treating overflow incontinence can be difficult, but for some men with an enlarged prostate, treatment with a type of medication called an alpha- a...

Why Do I Pee so Much At Night?

A urinary tract infection (UTI) triggers a need to pee more during the day and at night. Some medicines pull fluid out of your system and make you ...