When we have difficulty evacuating our body’s compensatory strategy is often to strain. This places a lot of undue stress on your pelvic floor, often leading to injury and/or prolapse.
Is your daily schedule controlled by your bladder? Do you know where every single bathroom is within a 20-mile radius of your home? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you may have symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB).
A physical exam may be performed to identify other conditions that may affect the bladder
Urine analysis to rule out infection.
Post void residual to assess how much urine remains in your bladder after emptying.
Urodynamics to assess the functioning of the bladder during storage and emptying.
Overactive bladder is a complex condition affecting millions of women across all ages. It can be costly, embarrassing and result in avoiding social activities for fear of leakage. Age increases the risk for OAB, but in some women the cause is unknown. There are many treatment options to treat OAB. Talk with the providers at The Woman’s Center For Pelvic Floor Dysfunction to determine which option is best for you.
American Urogynecologic Society, 2016
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American Urological Association, 2019
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