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Female Incontinence Treatment

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Are you tired of your bladder dripping without your will? Do you want a permanent solution to this incontinence that often leaves you mortified? Well, we are all at your service. Book your appointments now to get professional help and find a lasting solution to all your incontinence problems.


Female incontinence is fairly common in the UK. Almost every fourth woman suffers from some kind of urinary incontinence, but they prefer to remain silent out of embarrassment. But no more! With our professional help, say no to a leaky bladder and resume your walk in pride.

Understanding the Female Incontinence and its types

Edgbaston Wellness Female Incontinence

Female incontinence refers to a loss of bladder control in women. It is a very common condition with a lot of different underlying causes. At our clinic, you’ll get a personalized treatment based on the cause and type of your urinary incontinence. 

Urinary incontinence is of different types with different aetiologies. Some major types are described as follows: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, and mixed type that implies a combination of both stress and urge incontinence. 

We offer an expert team to cater all your urinary concerns and provide the best treatments available

Our clinic’s latest technologies and top-tier doctors make it all the easier to find permanent solutions to your incontinence problems. Moreover, we provide complete support and personalized aftercare plans for all our customers. 

Risk Factors for Female Incontinence

Increasing age 

Risk for urinary incontinence increases with advancing age, and it is extremely common in women over 70.

Tract infections 

Lower urinary tract infections greatly increase the risk for female incontinence.

Pregnancy

It is not uncommon to develop incontinence during pregnancy. If this is your case, you are likely to develop it 5 years after birth.

Vaginal birth

Giving birth through vagina (and not caesarean) can also cause urinary incontinence.

Obesity

Risk for developing incontinence is high when your BMI reaches 30 or more.

Genetics

Female incontinence also tends to run in families, showing a genetic link.

All you need to know about Female Incontinence Treatment

You may have other questions regarding the procedure that may not have been answered yet. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions.

What is female incontinence?

Female incontinence refers to a condition whereby a woman loses control over her bladder. This causes the urine to leak whenever there is a build-up of pressure (such as during coughing or sneezing) or when the bladder is over-reactive due to certain medical conditions.

How Common is Female incontinence?

It is very common in the UK. Every one in four women experiences urinary incontinence. The incontinence can be either stress or urge incontinence. However, it is the stress incontinence that accounts for nearly 65 percent of the total cases reported.

Why do I feel the need to pee all the time?

If you feel the need to pee all the time and can’t hold back your urge, you probably have an urge incontinence. This is caused by problems in the detrusor muscle of the bladder.

Normally, when this muscle relaxes, it allows the bladder to fill up with urine and when it contracts, it creates the urge to urinate. In urge incontinence, this muscle is over-reactive and makes you feel the need to lee all the time.

Can you reverse female incontinence?

Yes. It can be reversed be because most cases are temporary and are associated with conditions such as childbirth, pregnancy, obesity and too much intake of alcohol or caffeine. Such cases usually involve a decreased strength of the urethra that fails to stay closed and resist and increases pressure.

For such cases, before moving on to an invasive or surgical correction, experts recommend pelvic floor exercises to strengthen your urethra. These exercises can reverse mild cases of incontinence.

How is an incontinence treated?

Nonmedical treatment involves behavioural therapy such as doing pelvic floor exercises. For stress incontinence, a surgical treatment called tension free vaginal tape trans-obturator route (TVT-O) is employed, in which a polypropylene tape is positioned in the vagina and acts as a support for the urethra. For urge incontinence however, medicinal intervention is required along with surgery.

How long does it take to recover from incontinence surgery?

Post-surgery, the patient is temporarily kept on a catheter which is removed within a few hours and the patient is allowed to go home on the same day or the day after.

Stress Incontinence

It is perhaps the most common type of Incontinence that accounts for nearly 65% of all female incontinence. It happens when your bladder and urethra become weak and fail to resist an elevated pressure. So, when your bladder fills up with urine and the pressure rises, the urethra (the tube that carries urine outside the body) fails to stay closed and urine flows out without will.

Failure of urethra to stay closed can be due to:

Weakened or damaged muscles of the pelvic floor

A damaged urethral sphincter (the muscular ring that regulates urethral closure)

Due to this weakness of bladder and urethra, even a slight increase in pressure, such as during laughing or sneezing, causes urine to leak out of your body. The deficit in urethral strength can also be due to:

Nerve damage

Pregnancy

Low levels of estrogen, such as during menopause

Certain medications

Treatment for Stress Incontinence

For mild and temporary cases of stress incontinence, our experts/doctors will advise you exercises to strengthen your pelvic muscles. These are called pelvic floor exercises and are quite helpful in treating mild incontinence. However, serious incontinence would require specific treatment.

Urethral bulking is a surgical procedure aimed at strengthening the wall of your urinary tract to withstand a build-up of pressure during activities such as sneezing, etc. The procedure involves “bulking” the wall of the urethra with a man-made material. The material gets injected below the urethral lining or at the bladder outlet and helps these structures stay closed against an elevated pressure. The result, a strong tract that can effective manage pressure surges and avoid incontinence.

Benefits of Urethral Bulking Treatment

Urethral bulking is a highly effective treatment option to reverse the symptoms of stress incontinence. Women who undergo the treatment report significant improvements in their symptoms. The important thing however is that urethral bulking might not being a complete cure to your condition. Also, the responses to treatment are highly variable. While a single session is enough for some people to observe a complete reduction in incontinence symptoms, others may require multiple sessions or regularly spaced successive procedures. But should you worry? No, because our experts will roll in the perfect treatment schedule to benefit your condition.

Femilift treatment for Stress incontinence

Femilift is a vaginal rejuvenation treatment that aims at strengthening the pelvic floor and the inside of the vagina using the energy of a laser. It is a non-operative and painless procedure that begins with inserting a femilift hand-piece into the vagina. It then uses laser energy to heat the vagina to a precise temperature to allow the rejuvenation of its internal structures. This stimulates the production of more collagen and strengthening of the already existing collagen to achieve an overall younger and stronger vagina and pelvic floor. Its use for testing female stress incontinence has shown quite promising results.

Urge Incontinence

This type of incontinence refers to a condition when you feel the urge to pee all the time and fail to hold it back. It is caused by problems in the detrusor muscle of the bladder wall. When this muscle is relaxed, it allows your bladder to fill up with urine. When it contracts, it pushes urine out of the bladder, and you feel the urge and subsequently urinate.

In urge incontinence, this detrusor muscle becomes over-reactive so that it contracts too often, always making you rush towards a toilet. Your muscle can behave in this abnormal way due to the following conditions that might may lead to short-term or lasting urge incontinence:

Diseases that strike the brain and spinal cord, such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis

Pathologies of the urinary tracts, such as UTI's

Excessive intake of alcohol and caffeine

Constipation

Treatment for Urge Incontinence

Contrary to stress incontinence, urge incontinence requires certain medicinal interventions to produce an effective result. An unpopular treatment that we offer for urge incontinence is Botulinum Toxin A injections

Our experts inject the Botox into the side wall of the bladder to paralyse the detrusor muscle in people who have an over-reactive detrusor. This is an effective as well as non-invasive procedure as it does not involve any incisions. 90 percent of the females report significant improvements in symptoms post-treatment.

Sometimes, it may be difficult for you to pass urine normally after a Botox treatment. Our experts will teach you to self-pass a catheter, which is called clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC). However, this only happens in 20 percent of the cases.

For all the treatments that we offer, we have highly skilled professionals to make sure we provide the highest standards of quality in healthcare.

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September 19, 2020

Very friendly staff with a wide range and treatments, and the knowledge of how to apply those treatments. Very relaxed atmosphere, where you can discuss (without pressure) what you would like to enhance, about the way you look. They've altered my life and how I feel about myself in a very short time. I had no idea that I could alter (without surgery) my physical shape. This seemed to happen almost magically while we were chatting through the totally painless procedure. I'm very happy that I found you guys at Medispa, many thanks

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September 18, 2020

I have been visiting EF Medispa, Edgbaston for a few months now and I can honestly say it has so far been a very positive experience. The team are so friendly and welcoming, you are always greeted with big warm smiles. I initially had my consultation with Sarah, who was lovely and very knowledgeable. She explained the whole procedure to me before treatments commenced. I also cannot speak highly enough of Kelly who has been carrying out my treatments. She always makes me feel at ease, from the very start she has walked me through the process of the whole procedure, answers all my questions and tells me what the benefits are. I would highly recommend coming to EF Medispa, Edgbaston, it is a spotless and pristine clinic and not only that, you will be well looked after by all the professional, friendly and welcoming staff from the moment you walk through the door.

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February 18, 2019

I have been going to Ef Medispa for a couple of months now for ongoing treatments and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made. Not only can I see mass amount of improvements, I’ve created such a friendship with the staff. I walked in feeling under confident and insecure, however, Beth and Sarah have both made my self esteem higher than ever. Can’t thank them enough, going here is more like a catchup with friends!

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February 18, 2019

Our Medical Team

Edgbaston Wellness Medispa strives to be the best place to undertake minimal surgical and non-surgical procedures.

Our friendly Treatment Coordinators and Medical Practitioners will be at hand before and after the treatment to monitor your progress closely and ensure you get optimum results.

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Dr. Penumaka


Qualified General Practitioner with a special interest in Gynaecology 

She is also a trained Aesthetic Medical Practitioner. She has a wide range of surgical skills and routinely offers surgical and non-surgical treatments.

Dr Suresh Ganta Urological Surgeon and Aesthetic doctor.

Dr. Ganta


Urological Surgeon and Aesthetic doctor

Providing a range of Non-Surgical Aesthetic Treatments, including fillers and anti-wrinkle injections. He offers Complete Men’s Health and Women’s Health Consultations.

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Jessica


Senior Consulting Therapist

 Performs Aesthetic Treatments like radio frequency, and she has a true passion for skincare and skin health.

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CHARLY


Aesthetic Therapist

 Performs Skincare & Beauty Treatments like Tattoo Removal and Laser Hair Removal.

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