We’ll be featuring a series of posts over the next week about the symptoms and treatment options for various common chronic pelvic health conditions in women.
Chronic pelvic health conditions in women—including urinary leakage, overactive bladder and pelvic organ prolapse—are
common and affect 20-40 percent of the adult female population. The good news is that they are generally very treatable with conservative, non-surgical methods, or minimally invasive surgical methods.
Urinary leakage caused by a cough, sneeze or doing exercise (otherwise known as stress incontinence) is quite common in younger women. It can affect a woman’s daily life—limiting an active lifestyle, playing with kids, etc.
Janet Tomezsko, MD a urogynecologist at NorthShore’s
Center for Pelvic Health gives her advice about common urinary leakage treatments:
Does it surprise you to know that 20-40% of women at one point in their lives will have a pelvic health condition? What education and resources would be most helpful to you for learning more?