Most stroke victims suffer from urinary incontinence after their incidence. However, only about 15% will have lasting incontinence one year after suffering from the stroke.
Incontinence as a Symptom of Strokes
Conditions
The Pelvic Floor & Urinary Incontinence
People often think incontinence symptoms are caused by loose pelvic floor muscles. However, this isn’t always the case. In the "Hollywood" media, we often hear that we want tight pelvic floor muscles to prevent things like pelvic organ prolapse and leakage, but "tight" isn’t really the right word.
Q&A with Ms. Wheelchair USA - Madeline Delp
Madeline Delp is a car accident survivor turned motivational speaker, disability advocate, and public figure. She is a Ms. Wheelchair USA winner, fear-chaser, and world traveler. She, through her nonprofit Live Boundless, has delivered over 400 wheelchairs to those in need in Asia and South America. Despite her busy schedule of fear-chasing and pageant winning, Madeline sat down with us to answer some questions on everything from dating to staying active in a pandemic.
5 Ways to Help Your Parent with Incontinence
When you're born, your parent is your lifeline. They feed you, burp you, change you; you're completely dependent on their care. Then, as you grow older, you become more and more autonomous and independent of your parents, and it's a very exciting time. Your parent is still the invincible lifeline that guided you through the beginning of your life, but then things start to change. Your parents grow older, and they begin to show signs of their increasing age.
It can start as small things - needing reading glasses, forgetting where they put the remote, asking for a hand to get up out of a chair, etc. However, as your parent transitions into their older years, you may have to find a caregiver for them. You might even begin to become their primary caregiver, yourself. This is where things can start to become uncomfortable. In this new role, the child becomes the surrogate parent. However, some changes don't have to be as drastic as they initially seem. Discussing intimate subjects such as continence care can be intimidating. Trust us, we know. However, there are ways to receive help. If you keep these five factors at the front of your mind, you can set both you and your parent up for success.
What No One Tells Women About Middle Age
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By Lisa King
As women approach midlife, they may have some idea about life changes that they may start to experience, including menopausal symptoms, mood swings, or bladder leakage. Talking about menopause with girlfriends is often commonplace. Joking about hot flashes and the temperature of the room is often the norm. Women will usually discuss their mood swings and even send memes to friends that make light of this issue. What no one seems to talk about is overactive bladder and incontinence.
Incontinence in Middle-Aged Women: A Scorecard
An overwhelming 72% of the women polled have experienced incontinence, which includes bladder leakage as well as a total loss of bladder control. The results also indicated a clear lack of education and available resources to women as they navigate these changes to their body without help or direction from their healthcare provider.
Improving Care For Spinal Cord Injuries And Incontinence
80% of people with spinal cord injuries due to trauma, vehicle accidents, infections, and other conditions experience some degree of neurogenic bladder dysfunction. The bladder can become dysfunctional as a result of an injury or disease of the central nervous system, muscles, or peripheral nerves responsible for bladder control.Â
Staying Fresh With Incontinence In The Summer
It can be a challenge for those with incontinence to stay dry and cool in the summer, but this post will tell you how to do just that.
Why Urinary Incontinence in Women Is On The Rise
Urinary incontinence can be caused by factors such as nerve damage, medications, pelvic injuries, obesity, and urinary tract infections (UTIs). However, two factors that contribute specifically to the rise in incontinence in women include pregnancy and menopause.
The Connection Between Sleep Apnea & Incontinence
Do you find yourself stuck in the nightly routine of waking multiple times to use the restroom? Sure, as someone with urinary incontinence, that might be a normal occurrence, but is it combined with symptoms such as waking up with a headache, snoring loudly, or excessive fatigue? Then you may have sleep apnea and incontinence, both of which may contribute to each other as well as erectile dysfunction and a lowered sex drive.
