Learn All About Childhood Bedwetting and Genetics The average age of potty training can begin between 18mos to 3yrs and this depends on many factors of readiness including: physiological readiness, cognitive readiness, verbal readiness and motor readiness. In this...
An In Depth Look at Bladder Control for Your Child - and Yourself! Urinary Incontinence (UI) during the 4th trimester can be a frustrating symptom, but what happens when both you and your toddler, child or teen are struggling with bladder control, or urinary or fecal...
Causes & Treatments for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Men may experience different types of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) Men may experience different types of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and are often divided into different categories: storage...
Is There Really a Relationship Between Grip Strength and Urinary Incontinence? Read on to find out1 At Fusion Wellness & Physical Therapy, we take pride in understanding and applying how your whole body affects your pelvic health. In this article, we explore how...
When Buzzfeed journalist Shelby Heinrich did a deep dive with her readership into the "questions you are too embarrassed to ask about down there", I was honored to help. There were 15 questions in all, and here is a brief synopsis of the article, along with a link to...
It has long been recognized in the Pelvic Physical Therapy World that there is a connection between urinary incontinence and low back pain. Clinically, we often see patients that come in with both symptoms. How common is urinary incontinence among people also affected...
Overview: Urinary Incontinence About 13 million people in the United States experience some type of incontinence, or unwanted leakage of urine. More than 50% of women over 20 years old reported experiencing urinary incontinence at some point in their lives. Moderate...
In this Blog Post We Highlight an Important Aspect of Mens Health: Incontinence Although it is more common to experience urinary incontinence in females compared to men, men can still experience urinary incontinence. Just like females, males also have a pelvic floor...
While occasional daytime and nighttime accidents (bowel and urine) are a normal part of younger childhood, kids can experience pediatric incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction just like adults. In this article we will discuss the signs of an underlying pelvic floor...
Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the best kept secrets in medicine. Recently, I was on a plane flight and sat next to two women. They were very chatty with one another and quickly swept me up into their conversation. Inevitably, in situations like this,...
