Leaking urine when you cough, laugh, or sneeze is a common concern of women. Peeing when you cough, sneeze, or laugh is also known as stress incontinence and it isn’t something you have to live with. Stress incontinence is a symptom that something isn’t working that should. This can often be a problem with your pelvic floor, core, and/or diaphragm. At Vivid Women’s Health in Doylestown and Newtown, PA, our team of pelvic floor PTs help women stop leaking so that they can live an active life without fear. 

When a woman is dealing with stress incontinence, it is a sign that her body is not doing something it should. Stress incontinence can often be managed conservatively with pelvic floor physical therapy. 

Physical therapy for stress incontinence is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment that can help you stop leaking and feel confident again—without surgery or medication.

If you’ve ever experienced leaking pee as a female, you’re not alone. In fact, up to 50% of women leak pee at some point in their lives. Leaking pee, also known as urinary incontinence is tied to decreased quality of life and can significantly affects a woman’s social life. Experiencing urinary leakage is also a top reason why women stop participating in an exercise routine. While leaking pee can feel embarrassing, it’s actually very common and often treatable.

Recurrent urinary tract infections are frustrating for patients, especially when they don’t understand why they keep happening.

To answer the question of “why do I keep getting urinary tract infections” there are several things we need to investigate.

Urine leakage while running is a common concern for runners. Some studies report that to 40% of runners struggle with urinary incontinence. Many choose to just wear a pad and continue running, however we caution anyone against this as this can lead to compensations and further problems down the road. You should never leak when you run and if you experience leakage, you should stop running at the mileage point where you experience leakage. A quick solution, might be to take a small break mid-run and then try to resume running only continuing if you can do so without leakage.

Many patient struggle with recurrent UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections). Sometimes though, patients have UTI symptoms but no UTI present with urine cultures. This can frustrate patients because they have a difficult time finding relief of their symptoms with traditional UTI remedies. So what exactly is causing this and what can you do to remedy the symptoms?