Urinary Question about Incontinence?
27 Jul 2010
I was reading up on urinary incontinence. Can anyone please answer these two questions:
How does a bladder muscle become inactive?
What exactly is a inactive bladder muscle?
Sorry to hear that 1st responder. I hope it works out well for you! 
But HOW does the muscle become weak? Is there anyway to make it strong again without surgery?
The bladder has a muscle called the detrusor which controls it. This like any other muscle can become weak.
You can retrain your bladder to some extent by trying to hold your urge longer and longer. This would be unhealthy to do if you have no problem in your bladder but may be necessary if you’re having accidents or have an increase in frequency.
Pelvic floor exercises are also vital for this and weak pelvic floor exercises can result in a bladder prolapse as the other responder has had surgery for, a common type of surgery for this is TVT in women. (Trans vaginal taping).
There are different types of urinary incontinence which I’m sure you have discovered and there are many different causes, sadly this weakness often simply comes with age.
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2 Responses
Mellisa W
2010 Jul 27 1You bladder gets lazy. Meaning that the tube that carries the pee down the shoot gets inactive and does not go back up into place leaving the bladder to leak. I just had surgery this week for this problem. I have a bladder sling. It is a spring like item they put on the bottom of your tube to hold it up and prevent leaks. ask me in a few weeks how well it worked.
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Booboo Fixer
2010 Jul 27 2The bladder has a muscle called the detrusor which controls it. This like any other muscle can become weak.
You can retrain your bladder to some extent by trying to hold your urge longer and longer. This would be unhealthy to do if you have no problem in your bladder but may be necessary if you’re having accidents or have an increase in frequency.
Pelvic floor exercises are also vital for this and weak pelvic floor exercises can result in a bladder prolapse as the other responder has had surgery for, a common type of surgery for this is TVT in women. (Trans vaginal taping).
There are different types of urinary incontinence which I’m sure you have discovered and there are many different causes, sadly this weakness often simply comes with age.
References :
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