Understanding the different types of bladder leakage

There are multiple types of urinary incontinence- the most common types that women I treat deal with are urge incontinence, or overactive bladder and stress incontinence. If you experience both of these, that is considered mixed incontinence.

Urge Incontinence or Overactive Bladder

This is when you feel a strong urge to pee when your bladder is not actually full or needing to empty. This is something that most women don’t even realize they have. They think they have a small bladder, or they make urine very quickly- when in fact those are both myths!

Urgency is caused when the bladder muscle, the detrusor, begins to contract and signals a need to urinate, even when the bladder is not full. The awesome thing is, we can treat this without the need for bladder leakage medication, bladder surgery, or bladder leakage products!

Check out my course that takes you from running to the bathroom 30 times a day, to 8-10 times a day and not peeing your pants. Life changing.

Stress Incontinence or bladder leakage with jumping, running, exercising, coughing, laughing, squatting and sneezing!

Stress incontinence is an unfortunately common, but not normal condition involving the unintentional loss of urine due to physical stress on the bladder. Activities such as coughing, sneezing, laughing, or exercising can cause pressure downwards onto the pelvic floor, leading to leakage.

Stress incontinence impacts daily life as a busy mom and your ability to feel limitless, but bladder education, proper breath work, core brace techniques, pelvic floor mobility, pelvic floor strength (not kegels), and full body strength like your deep core and glutes can make all of the difference and stop the bladder leakage for you!

Find the entire organized plan by a pelvic floor physical therapist here!