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Behavior Therapy: Bladder control can be effectively improved through pelvic muscle exercise and
bladder retraining. Behavior techniques, which involve the patient and/or caregiver, can decrease the frequency of urinary incontinence in most individuals when provided by experienced and knowledgeable health care practitioners. These techniques have no reported side effects, and do not limit any future treatment options.
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Bladder Retraining: Bladder retraining teaches you tactics to be able to resist the urge to urinate. This retraining also involves tactics which can help relax the bladder, allowing it to store more urine to progressively prolong the interval between urinations. |
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Biofeedback
is a technique which teaches patients to improve their health by using
signals from their own body. The type of biofeedback we use at Abington Urological Specialists is called EMG,
or elecctromyography. Specialized computers help patients properly identify the pelvic muscles which control urination. Exercising these pelvic muscles correctly is key to the success of biofeedback. Biofeedback is used in conjunction with pelvic muscle exercises (Kegel exercises) to help you gain awareness and control of these muscles. Urinary incontinence can be improved, and even prevented, through the regular daily exercise of these pelvic floor muscles.
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Use of intraurethral devices |
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Correction of prolapse with a pessary |
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Drug Therapy involves the use of various medications to relax the bladder or to tighten the sphincter muscles |
