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Kidneys and Urinary System
Stress Urinary Incontinence
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Urinary incontinence is characterized by a clinical picture, where the central symptom is the loss of control of the bladder. One of the main factors in the development of urinary incontinence is an age since over the years the muscles that control urine have weakened or do not work.
Urinary incontinence is characterized by a clinical picture, where the central symptom is the loss of control of the bladder. One of the main factors in the development of urinary incontinence is an age since over the years the muscles that control urine have weakened or do not work.
In urinary incontinence of effort or stress, urine escapes when something heavy rises, for example, doing gymnastics, or in daily physical activities that require an effort, or in different medical conditions, for example, the flu in which to cough or sneeze Urine is lost.
The muscles of the pelvic floor support the urethra and the bladder, usually the urine accumulates in the bladder and is eliminated to the outside through the urethra, the will control the process. To prevent urine from being eliminated without control, there is a muscle in the opening of the bladder called the external sphincter. This muscle contraction prevents the elimination of urine without your control.
When the bladder is full of urine, it exerts pressure on the walls of the bladder which, in response, contracts. If the muscles that prevent the elimination of urine are weakened by causes such as obesity, pelvic prolapse, surgery of the pelvic area, birth vaginal lesions of the urethra, in men surgery of the prostate or urine is eliminated without control.
Treatments for stress urinary incontinence are to train the pelvic floor and bladder muscles and in some cases surgery.