Urge Incontinence Treatments

To prevent the signals from the bladder nerves overwhelming the inhibitory reflex and stopping the bladder muscle contracting before time, either the bladder nerves must be weakened or the inhibitory reflex must be strengthened.

Drugs may be used to suppress the parasympathetic bladder nerves and usually this resolves the urge incontinence. However, the drugs affect the entire parasympathetic nervous system and cause side effects such as dry mouth, dizziness and nausea. They do not cure the condition and must be taken continually or the urgency returns.

Electrostimulation of the inhibitory reflex to the bladder muscle with a very specific current will strengthen it. The stronger inhibitory reflex returns the situation to normal and the urge incontinence is removed.

Genesis Medical provides the Unomax II home stimulator, which cures or significantly improves Urge Incontinence in over 80% of cases with just 15-20 daily sessions lasting 20 minutes each. This is well researched and many clinical trials confirm these results.

Visit our on line shop for further details of the Unomax II.

Genesis Medical also supplies instruments for clinic-based treatments, and these are detailed in Healthcare Professionals.

Visit the library to see a selection of books on the subject

Stress Incontinence Treatments

Treatments for stress incontinence involve exercise of the pelvic floor muscles to increase their strength or the injection of a bulking material around the urethra to narrow the tube through which the urine passes.

Exercise may be performed by simply contracting and releasing the pelvic floor muscles. This is known as Kegel exercise. It is important to recognise and to exercise only the pelvic floor muscles in this way. A doctor or therapist is usually needed to show how to exercise correctly.

Electrostimulation can be used to contract and relax the muscles and so exercise them. As the correct muscles are automatically exercised there is no need for special instruction on muscle recognition. The Genesis Medical Unomax II home stimulator has several programmes for treating stress incontinence in this way.

Visit our on line shop to purchase the Unomax II, or see Healthcare Professionals for information on clinic-based treatments using the Unomax II or the Elite electrostimulation and biofeedback system.

The library contains a selection of relevant books

SURGERY If the conservative treatments mentioned above fail, surgery may be considered. This may involve raising the urethra towards the pelvic bone (colposuspension), or simply injecting a bulking material around the urethra to narrow the passage. Genesis Medical supplies a bulking material called Coaptite, which provides long-term relief from Stress Incontinence.

For more information on Stress incontinence visit Healthcare Professionals and look in the library for books on the subject.

Faecal Incontinence Treatments

Diagnosis of the faecal incontinence problems decides the course of treatment which should follow. This could involve surgery, exercise and surgery, or purely exercise, electrostimulation and/or biofeedback.

To exercise the anal sphincter and the pelvic floor, Genesis Medical supplies the Unomax II home unit with appropriate stimulation program cards and appropriate anal probe.

Visit our on line shop to purchase the Unomax II, or see Healthcare Professional.and look in the library for books on the subject.

Clinic Based Treatments

For clinic based treatments for urge, stress and faecal incontinence, Genesis Medical provides the Phenix electrostimulation and biofeedback systems with appropriate probes for stimulation and biofeedback (both EMG and pressure biofeedback).