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Bladder Control & Health

At Midwest Center for Womenโ€™s HealthCare, we understand how health conditions like incontinence can negatively affect your quality of life. Thatโ€™s why weโ€™re here to provide personal counsel and treatment for the many types of bladder control issues that might be impacting your life.

What are the types of incontinence a woman might face?

  • Stress Incontinence: When small amounts of urine will leak during physical activity or movement, like when laughing, sneezing or exercising.

  • Urge Incontinence:ย When large amounts of urine tend to leak out unexpectedly during sleep, when drinking small amounts of water, or at any other time, especially after feeling a sudden urge to urinate.

  • Overactive Bladder: This is classified by a sudden, strong need to urinate and also by the frequent need to go (8 or more times a day or multiple times during the night), which may or may not be related to urge incontinence.

  • Functional Incontinence: This is common for women with physical or medical conditions, or problems in thinking or communicating, which can prevent them from reaching a toilet or being able to urinate properly.

  • Overflow Incontinence: Rare for women, this is where leakage of small amounts of urine may occur due to a full bladder or bladder muscle issues.

  • Mixed Incontinence: Here, stress and urge incontinence happen at the same time.

  • Transient Incontinence: This happens when temporary leakage occurs due to infection, medication or illness.

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What are the risk factors for urinary incontinence?

  • Being a woman (six of every seven cases of adult incontinence are women)

  • Being pregnant or having recently given birth

  • Participating in high-impact sports or exercise

  • Smoking

  • Being overweight

  • Being postmenopausal with a history of other medical conditions like diabetes or multiple urinary tract infections

We are here to help!

If you think you may be experiencing a bladder control issue, do not suffer in silence.

Our physicians and practitioners will work with you to accurately diagnose what youโ€™re experiencing, provide the right treatment for you (in most cases, non-surgical), and help get you back to living a life free of bladder control issues. Please ask your physician or practitioner about our discreet and convenient treatment options.