What is stress urinary incontinence?
Stress urinary incontinence is involuntary leakage of urine that occurs as a result of activity. Most commonly stress incontinence occurs with coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping, or impact activities.
Leakage typically occurs due to inability of the pelvic floor to control the pressure that is placed on it. Addressing why the leakage is there, and understanding how you body is managing pressure placed on the pelvic floor is the key to resolving stress incontinence. It isn’t all about Kegels, but rather about teaching your body how to coordinate the pelvic floor with the rest of your body. Sometimes the root cause of the leakage could be a problem at your back, hips, core or even your feet.
Leakage typically occurs due to inability of the pelvic floor to control the pressure that is placed on it. Addressing why the leakage is there, and understanding how you body is managing pressure placed on the pelvic floor is the key to resolving stress incontinence. It isn’t all about Kegels, but rather about teaching your body how to coordinate the pelvic floor with the rest of your body. Sometimes the root cause of the leakage could be a problem at your back, hips, core or even your feet.
How can pelvic floor PT help with managing symptoms of stress urinary incontinence?Pelvic floor therapy aims to address the weaknesses within the pelvic floor, core and hip muscles. The goal of pelvic floor therapy is to have you participate in any activity, without leakage.
Pelvic floor therapists provide hand-on manual treatments, individualized exercises and discuss lifestyle modifications in order to reduce leakage and allow you to improve your activity level, with little to no symptoms. |
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"She takes into consideration your entire body, your past and present physical history and offers excellent in depth explanations for every single movement, treatment and exercise".
What is the Vivid difference?
Urinary leakage is our specialty! Our therapists combine orthopedic and pelvic floor treatment techniques to assess and treat the root cause to your urinary leakage.
At Vivid Women’s Health your Doctor of Physical Therapy will:
At Vivid Women’s Health your Doctor of Physical Therapy will:
- Find the root cause of your symptoms.
- Address how your pelvic floor is functioning with your whole body; it isn't just Kegels.
- Treat your for one-hour with hands on treatments.
- Be with you one-on-one for the entire session; no aides or techs.
- Treat you with compassion in a private, stress free environment.