Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Missing Piece

Pelvic PT Rising · Apr 17, 2023 · 21m

One thing we often miss with stress urinary incontinence is a focus on the task and timing of our patient's issues.

Often we jump right to voluntary pelvic floor strength. After all, that's what we're taught in our introductory pelvic health courses.

But pelvic health strength isn't really correlated with urinary incontinence.

A patient can have a pelvic floor that tests as weak but not have any symptoms.

A patient can have an pelvic floor testing as strong with massive urinary incontinence problems.

Isolated strength alone tells us almost nothing about how the pelvic floor performs in…