For people who want peace of mind. Your bladder shouldn’t be a burden. Give your mind and body a much-deserved break with our program created to treat overactive bladders.
Urge incontinence is designed to treat or reduce symptoms of an overactive bladder. Improve pelvic floor endurance and gain control over sudden urges.
You need this program if:
The bathroom rules your days and nights. You’ve become a pro at scheduling bathroom breaks. You never leave home without a detailed map of rest stops. And getting an uninterrupted night of sleep sounds like a dream. When your overactive bladder is disrupting your night and dictating your day, it’s time to try the Urge Incontinence program.
What can you expect?
Peace of mind, a good night's rest, and a newfound comfort and confidence in your body.
In research studies, about 2/3 of women with urge or other incontinence symptoms, who perform regular pelvic floor muscle training, experience an improvement in leak symptoms, and about 35% of women stop leaks entirely. Women also reported less daily leaks and improved quality of life.
While some women start to notice less leak symptoms in a matter of weeks, for others it can take between 3-6 months of regular training to see results.
What factors may influence my individual results?
Training frequency: regular training (sticking to your 10-minute session, 5 times a week) is linked with faster improvements. Keep training sessions short and sweet and respect rest time! Overdoing it won't make you progress any faster, and could actually slow down your progress.
Kegel quality: making sure you are correctly engaging your pelvic floor muscles is key. Don't hesitate to practice with the kegel coach (linked) and pay attention to contraction quality during games.
Breaking old habits and creating new mental associations: do you get a sudden urge to pee as soon as you put your key in the door? Do you use the toilet every hour, even without an urge to pee, "just in case"? If you repeat these behaviors often enough, your brain may start to associate these moments with having to pee, even if you don't really have to go. Try breaking the cycle by changing your routine: for example; by adding a distracting task (such as mental math) while you get your keys out to open your door, or by gradually spacing out planned trips to the bathroom.
Other factors: If you are under age 50, and despite pelvic floor muscle training you are not seeing any symptom relief, factors like recurrent urinary tract infections, or cysts or fibroids that are pressing on the bladder, can also contribute to urge incontinence. With age and menopause, urge incontinence can appear without any real reason, and may be helped with medication. If you have been training regularly, have seen improvements in your strength and endurance, and have seen no improvement in leak symptoms, you can use your training data as valuable information to share with your medical professional.
How does it work?
Urge incontinence is the sudden and often intense need to urinate.
Your bladder muscle, also called detrusor muscle, may be hyperactive.
Your “levator ani” muscles, if specially trained, will trigger an inhibiting reflex that allows you to calm the bladder muscle. With perseverance in the training, this reflex movement of the muscle will automatically come right.
Pelvic floor exercises, like Kegels, work to offer bladder regulation through pelvic muscle contractions.
Main patterns used
For urge incontinence, contractions should use lower strength at longer intervals. This prolonged squeezing works to train your slow-twitch muscle fibers by stimulating the detrusor inhibitor reflex, also known as the Mahony reflex. This natural reflex helps to suppress the normal symptoms of urge incontinence.
Key dimensions
The Perifit Care analyzes five key dimensions of each kegel exercise.
Primary
Endurance: the contraction is held for a few seconds to calm urge and promote pelvic support
Strength: the contraction is strong enough to ensure continence and stop leaks
Secondary
Relaxation: the contraction ensures a wide range of motion and flexible muscles
Kegel quality: the contraction is training your pelvic floor muscles and not increasing abdominal pressure
Not in focus
Control