Incontinence: How It Can Affect You and How You Can Fix It

Posted: March 30, 2016

Find out if you suffer from urinary incontinence and which treatment is best for you by contacting Aguirre Specialty Care in Denver, Colorado!Urinary incontinence affects more than 38% of women in the United States. Women can experience various types of incontinence that result in urinary leakage, often affecting their social and sexual lives. While the cause of incontinence can vary with each woman, the most common cause is weak bladder muscles as a result of the natural aging process.

The most common types of incontinence are stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence, mixed urinary incontinence, and overflow incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence results in leakage with physical activity, such as exercising, jumping or even sneezing. Urge urinary incontinence is the sudden need to urinate. Mixed urinary incontinence is a mix of urge and stress incontinence while overflow incontinence, is leakage caused by a constantly full bladder.

Aguirre Specialty Care offers a variety of urinary incontinence treatments in Denver including at-home treatments, non-surgical treatments, and surgical treatments. The best treatment option for the patient depends on the form of urinary continence they experience and can be determined by Dr. Oscar A. Aguirre during a consultation. There’s no need to let urinary incontinence – whether it be a small leak once in a while or constant leakage – affect your daily life when there are so many treatments available to help!

If you think you may be experiencing a form of urinary incontinence, call 303.322.0500 today! Aguirre Specialty Care can diagnose your urinary incontinence and determine which treatment is best for you.