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‘Detrusor Overactivity’ Affects Many Women

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comAugust 19, 2009 0 Comments

SPECIAL EXERCISES such as Kegel exercises have a low success rate in treating stress incontinence when performed without the involvement of a physical therapist with unique training in pelvic floor biofeedback therapy.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Stress incontinence is a type of urinary incontinence caused by increases in abdominal pressure. Women with stress incontinence typically have leakage of urine with activities such as swinging a golf club, playing tennis, jumping, bending, coughing, laughing, yelling, or brisk walking.

Filed Under: Women's Health Tagged With: bladder spasms, Burch and MMK Procedures, Detrusor Overactivity, Dr. Marja Sprock, Dr. Ralph Zipper, Drug Therapy, Electrical Stimulation Therapy, Mid-Urethral Sling, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy, Pessaries, Stress Urinary Incontinence, Urethral Injections, Women's Health

Many Women Are Plagued By Overactive Bladder

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJuly 20, 2009 0 Comments

Ralph Zipper, MD

MANY WOMEN are plagued on a daily basis by frequency of urination, excessive nighttime urination, urgency of urination, and urinary incontinence associated with the sensation of needing to urinate.

Filed Under: Women's Health Tagged With: bladder control, Bladder Retraining, Detrol, detrusor muscle, Ditropan, Electrical Stimulation Therapy, Enablex, excessive nighttime urination, Intacystic Botox Injection, Interstim, Nerve Stimulation Therapy, Overactive Bladder, Oxytrol, Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy, Ralph Zipper, Sanctura XR, Tibial Nerve Stimulation Therapy, urgency of urination, urinary incontinence, Vesicare

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