Did you know that over 13 million people in the United States suffer from urinary incontinence?
Urinary incontinence is when someone experiences undesired urine leakage. The types of urinary incontinence are numerous. Here are some of them you could be experiencing:
Stress incontinence. Playing a sport, laughing, or sneezing can cause this type of incontinence. This happens when the pelvic-floor muscles are weakened and put under pressure. This can happen because of a lack of physical exercise.
Urge incontinence. This type of incontinence happens when someone senses a sudden urge to go to the restroom and doesn’t make it before leakage occurs.
Mixed incontinence. Many people suffer from a mix of these two types of incontinence, both stress and urge incontinence.
Functional incontinence. This happens when someone doesn’t notice an intense urge to urinate and leakage occurs on the way to the restroom.
Here’s the good news, a physical therapist can diagnose and help you overcome your symptoms of incontinence. As you see one of our experienced physical therapists at RPT, they’ll design an individualized program to your specific needs with this condition which can help you control your symptoms and get you back to living your life. Working with a physical therapist will help reduce your need for medication and possibly surgery.
You deserve your quality of life back, let us help you! Give us a call at 801-572-0690 to schedule an appointment with us.
