Urinary Incontinence In Women
Urinary Incontinence In Women
We understand that bladder control problems are very delicate issues for women. Some people consider it as a taboo and some stigma is still attached to it. Even though most of the women at different stages of their life go through Urinary incontinence with different severity.
But these women feel embarrassed to discuss the problem with their health professional. Alternatively, they seek a different source of information such as the internet or ask for help from family and friends. But we have an effective and safe treatment that can change your life, It is Called Votiva
Votiva is in Edmonton, a breakthrough treatment
Votiva is #1 a radio frequency device that has a vaginal applicator. This applicator sends high radio frequency waves to help with multiple vaginal and urinary problem such as dryness, sexual dysfunction, and urinary incontinence. But how does that even make sense? In order to explain that, we have to explain the main cause of urine leakage in the female.
Why females?
If you kept reading to reach this paragraph, it means that you (or a dear one) is affected by an accidental or involuntary control of her bladder. As a matter of fact, women are more valuable than men to this issue, almost 2:1. The difference is explained by the difference in urinary system anatomy, and other aggravating factors. These factors are mainly childbirth and hormonal fluctuations in pre and post-menopause. Most all women suffer from vaginal and urinary issues after pregnancy. Some of these problems resolve spontaneously, and most of it stays and require treatment. We refer to it as Chronic Unitary incontinence.
Causes of Urinary incontinence in females
Think of a blader as a tank that gets filled all the time with urine. The tank is surrounded by a muscle and it has one opening which is also controlled by the sphincter muscle. This is the detrusor muscle along with other bigger muscle ( pelvic floor muscle) are responsible for supporting and controlling the bladder muscle and its functionality. Therefore, weakening of the pelvic floor muscle will result in different disorders including the urinary incontinence.
What Cause the Pelvic floor muscles to get weaker?
The constant pressure and prolonged stretching causes a permanent change in this muscle and make it weaker. The increased pressure comes from pregnancy, overweight and some type of exercise! Yes, In fact, females athletes involved in repetitive, high intense physical activity are more prone to have urinary incontinence. In athlete female, the insufficient strength of Pelvic Floor Muscles and the high intra-abdominal pressure due to the muscular structure result in high incidence of incontinence! Other factors are chronic coughing, weight lifting, high impact exercise and obesity
Type of Urinary incontinence
There are different types of chronic urinary incontinence:
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Overactive bladder
- Acute Urinary incontinence
With Stress incontinence, the woman does not feel the urge to urinate, however, she leaks urine due to any moderate abdominal muscle contractions such as laughing and sneezing.
On the contrary, a woman with overactive bladder incontinence, she feels a sudden urge to urinate and most probably will leak before reaching the bathroom. This often happens even if the balder is not full and has only a minimal amount of urine.
The acute type is due to urinary tract infection or kidney diseases and usually resolve as the infection or the renal issue is treated.
Treatment options
There is some pharmaceutical treatment for chronic urinary incontinence that could be prescribed by your family physician, mainly in the overactive bladder. These treatments are not permanent, meaning, it reduces the symptoms but does not correct the main cause of the urinary incontinence. Moreover, it has lots of side effects profile such as constipation and dry mouth. However, these medications have a very little effect on the stress incontinence, which is most prevalent among women. Other options are to reduce pressure on your bladder by losing weight in obese patients or electrical stimulation and different types of surgery
Votiva is the ideal treatment?
We need to restore the strength and functionality of the pelvic floor muscles to have better control over the bladder. But how can we achieve a stronger and healthy internal muscle such as pelvic muscle? There is some exercise that women can do on there own such as Kegel exercise. which is an excellent option, however in the long term. Votiva can offer an amazing option for stress incontinence in women.
