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The following pages will discuss prevention and management of stress and urge urinary incontinence. If when you have read them you feel you may be suffering from one or both of these conditions, it is important that you seek medical advice to obtain a diagnosis in order to exclude other forms of incontinence that are not discussed on these pages (go to our links page for details of organisations that may otherwise be able to help you).
Physiotherapists have long been concerned with women’s health and have striven to address the issue of pelvic floor dysfunction that can result in incontinence either urinary, faecal, or both. The most common of these is stress urinary incontinence which will affect one in every three women. In recent years huge amounts of time has been devoted to research in order to enable health professionals to better help women with pelvic floor dysfunction. The result is that women are in a better position than ever before to get access to information and treatment for this often isolating and embarrassing condition.
Thankfully there is also a growing public awareness of pelvic floor dysfunction, driven by organisations such as "The Continence Society", "The Association of Continence Advisors" and "Chartered Physiotherapists Promoting Continence". This drive will continue long into the new millennium to ensure that this hitherto little discussed condition will no longer be a source of embarrassment and disgrace for sufferers. Moreover our female youth need to understand the marvellous anatomy and function of their pelvic floor and be educated regarding how best to maintain its function, so that future generations will not have to accept stress incontinence as " a women’s lot".
Click here to move on to understanding the pelvic floor
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