What is urinary incontinence?

Urinary incontinence is the INVOLUNTARY loss of urine. There are typically two separate diagnosis for urinary incontinence. One is called STRESS urinary incontinence. The second one is called urinary URGENCY with incontinence. There is also a third, which is called overflow incontinence.

Stress urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine with any physical activity that overrides your ability to hold your urine in your bladder. Women typically think about coughing, sneezing, laughing, or jumping causing their urinary incontinence. But it can also be as subtle as getting up out of a chair or losing urine during sex.

How common is stress urine incontinence?

Two out of every three women suffer from stress incontinence. Most often, this is a result of aging and decreasing estrogen hormone production. However, many women suffer from stress incontinence due to vaginal deliveries, both complicated and uncomplicated. The larger the baby delivered vaginally, the greater the risk for damage to the striated muscles and nerves around the urethra (pee tube). Many obese women also suffer from stress urinary incontinence.

What is the treatment for stress urinary incontinence?

Many women have been told to practice kegel exercises. However, if their nerves and muscles have been damaged due to childbirth, it becomes an exercise in futility to perform kegel exercises. Obviously, if a patient is obese, losing weight will improve her stress incontinence. Hormone management with vaginal creams or pellet therapy may benefit the patient as well.

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There is, however, a very natural and scientific approach to improving stress urinary incontinence in many women.

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The O- SHOT is a treatment that was created over 10 years ago. Millions of women have benefited from this scientific and clinical approach to managing stress incontinence. This procedure involves injecting platelet rich plasma (PRP) into the space around the urethra (pee tube).

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Platelet rich plasma is the human body’s own blood cells. Platelet rich plasma is obtained by a simple blood draw from the patient’s arm. The blood tube is then spun in a centrifuge machine. The blood separates out into three different cell types -

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plasma, platelets and red blood cells. The plasma and platelets are removed from the blood tube and injected back into the space around the urethra. The injected cells then stimulate natural “growth factors” to be released from the patient’s bone marrow. These growth factors regenerate new tissue, including nerves and muscles. The benefits…improvement or complete resolution of the stress urinary incontinence.

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