Urinary incontinence

The loss of bladder control is a common and often embarrassing problem. The severity ranges from occasionally leaking urine when you cough or sneeze to having an urge to urinate that’s so sudden and strong you don’t get to a toilet in time.

Many people experience occasional, minor leaks of urine. Others may lose small to moderate amounts of urine more frequently.

Types of urinary incontinence include:

• Stress incontinence. Urine leaks when you exert pressure on your bladder by coughing, sneezing, laughing, exercising or lifting something heavy.
• Urge incontinence You have a sudden, intense urge to urinate followed by an involuntary loss of urine. You may need to urinate often, including throughout the night. Urge incontinence may be caused by a minor condition, such as infection, or a more severe condition such as a neurological disorder or diabetes.
• Overflow incontinence. You experience frequent or constant dribbling of urine due to a bladder that doesn’t empty

Osteopathy and involuntary urination - how do we treat it?

Firstly, any infections or inflammatory conditions need to be identified and managed.

Osteopathic treatment uses a combination of techniques including internal pelvic floor (gynecological) myofascial release (with consent). Externally, there is bodywork on the fascia, and the muscles, nerves and joints that affect this area.

As involuntary urination is a chronic pain condition and with this comes an overstimulated nervous system, part of the treatment is focused on helping to calm the nervous system using gentle osteopathic techniques such as cranio-sacral therapy, and we also make sure the right pelvic floor exercises are implemented into the daily routine.

We also give advice on lifestyle, breathing patterns and mindfulness.

What to do?

• Train body awareness, mind and body connection
• Lower stress
• Exercise in a right way
• Right diet to lower inflammation
• Right supplementation
• Right hygiene of sleep
• Seek help from a psychologist
• Seek help from an OSTEOPATH who is ALSO performing internal vaginal techniques

In OsteoMedica our osteopaths Aleksandra Zegalski and Deborah Tassi pelvic floor evaluation and internal gynecological techniques