pelvic health proposal
Adult urinary incontinence costs hundreds a year for briefs and creates landfills of medical waste.
https://nafc.org/bhealth-blog/how-to-manage-the-cost-of-incontinence-insurance-hsa-and-more/#:~:text=Women%20spend%20an%20average%20of%20%24750%20annually%20managing%20urinary%20incontinence.
Fully a third of women experience postpartum incontinence. Although not painful or life-threatening, urinary incontinence has an insidious way of affecting quality of life, causing women to avoid social interaction and jobs out of fear of accidents.
https://whttps://www.glowm.com/section-view/heading/Urinary%20Incontinence%20and%20Quality%20of%20Life/item/424#ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886546/
Many doctors diagnose recurrent UTIs and overprescribe antibiotics. Some urologists operate mills offering injections of Botox and bulking agents. Transvaginal mesh procedures can cause a lifetime of expensive complications. Few refer leaky ladies for pelvic floor PT.
I propose to lead a one-hour workshop where we'll watch two videos and felt bladder purses.
Female incontinence is the loss of bladder control in women. It is not uncommon to lose urine during pregnancy or with urinary tract infections temporarily. There are many reasons you might develop urinary incontinence as a chronic problem. The most common causes are pelvic floor trauma with childbirth, menopause, hysterectomy, obesity, cognitive impairment, chronic cough and constipation.
There are three types of female incontinence:
Urge incontinence: Women with urge incontinence feel the need to urinate frequently. They experience leakage of urine during times associated with this urge.
Stress incontinence: Women with stress incontinence, also known as physical or exertion incontinence, may experience urine leakage, especially when coughing, laughing, exercising or sneezing.
Mixed incontinence: Many women experience a combination of stress incontinence and urge incontinence.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/female-incontinence#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20causes%20are,the%20need%20to%20urinate%20frequently.
Pelvic floor physical therapy can give women with urinary incontinence the skills they need to regain bladder control. It works by improving the strength and function of the muscles that support the bladder, urethra and other pelvic organs.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/treatments/pelvic-floor-physical-therapy
And there's a fun app.
THE VIDEOS
felted bladder purses.
