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General Urology

Female Urinary Leakage

Treatment of Female Stress Incontinence

What is stress incontinence?

Stress incontinence is leaking related to “stress” such as coughing, jumping, standing, walking or exercise.  Leaking at night while sleeping is rare but can sometimes be a more severe form of incontinence. Stress incontinence is very common immediately after prostate cancer treatments but tends to improve gradually over time.  Typically, the most improvement will be seen the first 6 to 12 months after your prostate cancer treatment. Robotic surgery has improved stress incontinence rates to less than 10%.

Female Urinary Incontinence (Leakage) Guidelines

Early treatments for stress Incontinence

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Urinary leaking has been shown to improve quicker with kegel (urinary sphincter strengthening) exercises. These exercises should be started prior to your prostate cancer treatment or as soon as possible after surgery to expedite your continence recovery.

To do a Kegel exercise, follow these steps:

  1. Start by holding your pelvic floor muscles in for 5 seconds. To pull in your pelvic floor, think of pulling in and lifting up your genitals (it’s the motion you make when you try to stop your urinary stream during voiding).
  2. After holding for 5 seconds, slowly and completely relax your muscles for 5 seconds.
  3. Repeat this process 10 times, at least 3 times every day.
  4. Consider seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist for more intensive pelvic floor strengthening.

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Freedom+™ Incontinence Treatment Solutions

  • Functional Magnetic Stimulation (FMS™), Enabling Fast And Easy Strengthening Of The Pelvic Floor Muscles Without Effort.
  • Stimulates powerful supramaximal contractions delivering the equivalent of up to 25,000 Kegels in a treatment of the entire pelvic floor musculature.

 

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