NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A healthy weight and regular exercise may help protect men from one of the most common side effects of prostate cancer surgery, a new study suggests. Researchers found that ...
A man performs pelvic exercises. Researchers sought to determine if practicing Kegel exercises, a common pelvic-floor exercise, could prevent urinary and fecal incontinence in patients with prostate ...
Incontinence, the unintentional leakage of urine, can be an uncomfortable and embarrassing condition. It can be an uncomfortable and embarrassing condition that can affect people of all ages. While it ...
Kegels. No woman hears that word and thinks, ‘Wahoo can’t wait to do them!’ And yet it’s been drilled into our heads over the years how important they are for pelvic floor health. Whether or not ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having a Cesarean section may not lower a woman's chance of incontinence later in life -- unless she delivers all of her children that way, according to a new study. The ...
High levels of physical activity are independently related to a lower self-reported prevalence of urinary incontinence in a community-dwelling population aged 70 years and older. Each of the 676 ...
Do you find yourself frequently getting up during the night to urinate? Or maybe when the urge hits you it is very sudden and strong. When this happens and you are not able to hold your urine, we call ...
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As our aging population grows, nurses are continuing to see more instances of tough-to-manage skin breakdown due to incontinence. Skin damage associated with urine ...
Picture the scene: you’re bossing it at Crossfit; the instructor is giving you the definition of hungry eyes; and you are so pleased you put on your new pink gym clothing. Now imagine this. As you ...
This Practice Point commentary discusses the systematic review by Hay-Smith and colleagues, which investigated the efficacy of pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) for preventing and treating urinary ...
Surgeons have now found a new surgical approach termed as Burch colposuspension to prevent urinary incontinence, resulting in involuntary loss of urine. Surgeons have now found a new surgical approach ...
Unintentionally wetting yourself, even a tiny bit, is called urinary incontinence. This problem can be embarrassing, but it still affects millions of people in the UK. If incontinence is starting to ...