How Our Team Can Help With Your Pelvic Health

Primary Causes of Urinary Incontinence

Our team understands that incontinence can arise from various factors, which can often be addressed through lifestyle changes and targeted therapy. There are many potential causes of urinary incontinence, including:

• Weakened bladder muscles resulting from pregnancy, childbirth, obesity, and aging
• Physical damage to your pelvic floor muscles from childbirth or surgery
• Damage to the nerves from delivery and health problems like diabetes and multiple sclerosis
• Enlarged prostate
• Types of cancer

Some types of urinary incontinence happen due to other reasons, like:

Regardless of the causes, our integrated team has solutions that work for the different types of incontinence. 

Understanding the Types of Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence is any undesired leakage of urine and involves the pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic floor muscles attach to the bottom of the pelvic bones and form a supportive “hammock structure” that supports the internal organs.  Here are the primary types of urinary incontinence:

Stress Incontinence: 

• Leaks that happen when intra-abdominal pressure increases, such as when laughing, sneezing, playing a sport or lifting heavy objects.

Urge Incontinence: 

• This accidental leakage occurs with a sudden, intense urge to urinate, often leading to leakage before reaching a restroom.

Mixed Incontinence: 

• A combination of stress and urge incontinence symptoms.

Functional Incontinence: 

• Leakage that occurs due to physical barriers, such as difficulty moving to the bathroom in time.

Urinary Frequency: 

• The frequent need to empty their bladder throughout the day and night.

Incontinence affects twice as many women as men, often due to factors such as childbirth and menopause. Fortunately, we provide treatments that are effective for all genders.

Comprehensive Incontinence Treatments with Our Integrated Team

At Foundation Physio, we provide a full-body approach to treating incontinence starting by taking you through a thorough physical examination and comprehensive patient history. Our integrated team of physiotherapists, pelvic health specialists, and chiropractors work together to offer tailored treatments that include:

Pelvic Floor Strengthening: 

• Using specific exercises and biofeedback to enhance pelvic floor muscle control and reduce leakage.

Manual Therapy: 

• Soft tissue mobilization and massage of internal and external pelvic musculature to relieve muscle tension and provide pain relief. Our team may also perform spinal and sacroiliac joint manipulations to reset the neurological pathway, relieve pain, and restore normal spinal alignment.

Massage Therapy:

• Massage therapy around the hip, thigh and low back muscles can be effective in working with the surrounding musculature that may create tension and pain.

Therapeutic Exercises: 

• Therapeutic exercises to restore the normal strength and endurance of stabilizing pelvic floor muscles and muscles in the low back and hips. 

By combining these techniques, we address the root causes of incontinence, ensuring personalized care and optimal outcomes. Contact us to discover how our collaborative approach can help you regain control and confidence.