Urinary incontinence occurs when you’re unable to control your bladder. As a result, you leak anywhere from a few drops of urine to a large amount and aren’t able to prevent this from happening. It can be embarrassing if it happens in public, and it can negatively impact your self-image.
Incontinence can happen to anyone at any time in their lives, but women are twice as likely to develop it as men, and it’s more common as they get older. Over 4 in 10 women 65 and above have some degree of incontinence.
At Primary Care Walk-In Medical Clinic in Gilbert, Fountain Hills, Mesa, and Scottsdale, Arizona, our providers, Dr. Pankaj Chopra and Dr. Neha Maheshwari, offer treatment for stress incontinence, so you never have to worry about embarrassing drips and leaks again.
Here, the team discusses how to treat stress incontinence without surgery so that you can feel good in your body again.
There are two primary categories of incontinence, and a third that has characteristics of both.
This is the most common type, and it’s more prevalent in younger women. It occurs when something puts pressure on the bladder, most commonly the pelvic floor muscles that support the bladder and urethra, making them work harder.
Actions such as coughing, sneezing, and laughing all use the pelvic floor muscles and can therefore lead to stress incontinence.
In this type, you develop a strong, sudden urge to urinate, and you may have difficulty getting to the bathroom in time. Even if you’re able to get to a bathroom, you may feel the urge to urinate eight or more times a day but not produce much when you go. This form is also called “overactive bladder.”
Older women are more likely to develop urge incontinence, and it can be triggered at any time, even when you’re sleeping, when you take a drink, or when you hear or touch running water.
At Primary Care Walk-In Medical Clinic, we offer two solid, nonsurgical treatments to help resolve stress incontinence.
Morpheus V is used in vaginal rejuvenation and can help with stress incontinence. It includes two types of technology: microneedling and radiofrequency (RF) energy.
Microneedling is a technique in which we use ultra-thin needles to prick holes in the dermal layer of the skin, where collagen and elastin, two structural proteins, are produced. Collagen lends support, firmness, and plumpness to the tissue, and elastin lends tightness and tone. As you age, you make less of these proteins, which can lead to tissue laxity.
Your body treats the holes as damage and mounts a repair response, which generates production of new collagen and elastin.
Morpheus V also delivers RF energy into the holes to heat the dermal layer, further boosting collagen and elastin production. The two techniques together produce a stronger healing response, improving bladder support and reducing leaks.
VTone by InMode relies on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), the same technology used in body contouring. It produces numerous rapid contractions in the muscles that control your bladder. This, in turn, leads to stronger pelvic floor muscles and less urine leakage.
Are you having problems with the involuntary leakage of stress incontinence? Primary Care Walk-In Medical Clinic can help. Walk in, call us at any location, or book an appointment online.
