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  2. Athletic incontinence - Wikipedia

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    Unlike stress incontinence, which is defined as the loss of small amounts of urine associated with sneezing, laughing or exercising, athletic incontinence occurs exclusively during exercise. [1] Athletic incontinence is generally thought to be the result of decreased structural support of the pelvic floor due to increased abdominal pressure ...

  3. Stress incontinence - Wikipedia

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    In women, pregnancy, childbirth, obesity, and menopause often contribute to stress incontinence by causing weakness to the pelvic floor or damaging the urethral sphincter, leading to its inadequate closure, and hence the leakage of urine. [3] [4] [5] Stress incontinence can worsen during the week before the menstrual period. At that time ...

  4. Urinary incontinence - Wikipedia

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    Urinary incontinence (UI), also known as involuntary urination, is any uncontrolled leakage of urine. It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a large impact on quality of life . [ 1 ] Urinary incontinence is common in older women and has been identified as an important issue in geriatric health care.

  5. Urethral hypermobility - Wikipedia

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    This could include ruling out other types of incontinence and other abnormalities, and specific tests for stress incontinence, for example testing for urinary leakage during cough. Specialized testing to further characterize the degree of urethral hypermobility may include urodynamic testing , voiding cystourethrography , pelvic ultrasound ...

  6. Peeing Your Pants? New Study Shows This Low-Impact Exercise ...

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    In one program, 121 women with urinary incontinence did a regular yoga class. During the other, 119 women with urinary incontinence did a physical conditioning class (this was designed to be the ...

  7. Urethral sphincters - Wikipedia

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    Stress urinary incontinence is a common problem related to the function of the urethral sphincter. Weak pelvic floor muscles, intrinsic sphincter damage, or damage to the surrounding nerves and tissue can make the urethral sphincter incompetent, and subsequently it will not close fully, leading to stress urinary incontinence.

  8. Enuresis - Wikipedia

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    Nocturnal enuresis usually presents with voiding of urine during sleep in a child for whom it is difficult to wake. [7] [8] It may be accompanied by bladder dysfunction during the day which is termed non-mono symptomatic enuresis. [9] Day time enuresis, also known as urinary incontinence, may also be accompanied by bladder dysfunction.

  9. Underactive bladder - Wikipedia

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    Without diagnostic evaluation, the cause of underactive bladder is unclear, as there are multiple possible causes. UAB symptoms can accurately reflect impaired bladder emptying due either to DU or obstruction (normal or large storage volumes, elevated post-void residual volume), or can result from a sense of incomplete emptying of a hypersensitive bladder (small storage volumes, normal or ...