What causes Urge Urinary Incontinence

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Urge urinary incontinence is caused by your detrusor muscle squeezing on your bladder too frequently. Did you know that there is a muscle💪 around your bladder? It is called your Detrusor. When your bladder expands, your detrusor muscle should signal to your brain 🧠 that “Hey, I have to go to the bathroom.” When this happens it is called urgency, the feeling of needing to go. When your bladder that then is telling you that too often that is overactive bladder syndrome. When your detrusor muscle is squeezing around your bladder and your pelvic floor muscles, below the bladder, are not strong enough to overcome the urgency that you're feeling from the bladder being expanded then you leak.
You might think that solution to bladder leaks is going more often, but you would be wrong. The bad thing about emptying your bladder too frequently is that your bladder is itself a muscle and it's a pouch, when you start emptying it too frequently it's not used to being as expanded. This makes you have urgency quicker than you should because your bladder is actually starting to shrink. So, you don't want to get into the habit of emptying your bladder too frequently because you actually shrink the size of your bladder, and you cause yourself overactive bladder symptoms and can also contribute to leaking urine with urgency or “urge urinary incontinence.” If you have any other questions about urge urinary incontinence, don't hesitate to ask ([email protected]). I am Dr. Lauren Peterson Clinical Director and Doctor of Physical Therapy here at FYZICAL Therapy & Balance Centers of Oklahoma City. Don't be shy drop me a line.