Incontinence
How the App Helps with Incontinence
Do you ever find yourself searching for bathrooms everywhere you go or do you find that you have overwhelming urges that sometimes mean you can't make it to the bathroom in time? That is incontinence! It can affect your confidence and ability to feel comfortable in many situations.
The Buff Muff App will give you everything you need to prevent and overcome incontinence. Our Kegel and pelvic floor exercise programs have been designed to give you the tools to overcome incontinence. You will build strength and confidence with exercise and lifestyle tips that will get you back to living life without the distraction and discomfort of nagging symptoms.
What is Incontinence?
Incontinence is any unwanted loss of urine at any time and any amount. So if you are not sitting on the toilet, wanting to go pee, and urine comes out of you, that would be termed "incontinence."
Urine is stored in the bladder, and our bladder signals our brain that it needs to empty, and we then go to the washroom. When we sit on the toilet, our pelvic floor muscles should relax and our bladder should contract to empty. 150 ml is usually when you get your first signal – a gentle hint that you may want to start thinking about a bathroom in the next hour or so. It continues to fill and will signal strongly between 200-300 mls. The stream should be steady for about 10 to 15 seconds with a genuinely full bladder. Anything less than that, it's probably not full or it's not emptying properly.
Are you planning your life around the bathroom and your bladder is interfering with you living your life fully?
The good news is you CAN live a leak-free life!
Questions we are often asked about Incontinence
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If you're laughing, coughing, sneezing, running, exercising, jumping, or doing any sort of exertion where a little bit of urine leaks out, that is stress urinary incontinence and is typically due to a lack of synergy between the pelvic floor, the bladder, and managing intra- abdominal pressure. The pelvic floor muscles must contract 200 milliseconds before an increase in intra-abdominal pressure in order to maintain continence. Stress urinary incontinence is when there is not enough tone to close off the sphincter and/or the sphincter doesn’t close in time and therefore a little bit of urine leaks out.
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Urge urinary incontinence is when all of a sudden you feel an overwhelming urge to urinate and may not make it to the bathroom in time which can result in a bit of urine leaking out or a complete release of your bladder. This can happen even if the bladder is not full. Urgency occurs when there's too much activity in the muscle and it's signaling the brain to empty more often than it should. The bladder is a muscle that can be trained and oftentimes it starts to signal more often because of habits or behaviors.
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Yes. Mixed incontinence would be a combination of the SUI and UUI. Less common and more life-altering is anal incontinence, where gas or stool leaks out of the body either with exertion or sometimes even at rest. This can result from poor muscle tone in the pelvic floor or damage to the anal sphincter.
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Absolutely! The pelvic floor is responsible for your continence, plays a role in pelvic and spinal control and stability, and is responsible for supporting your internal organs (bladder, uterus, and rectum). Exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor will help the muscles react at the right time with the right amount of force to close off the opening an prevent leaks.
The pelvic floor programs within the Buff Muff App will help you exercise without the fear of leaking or making things worse and they will actually fix the problem. You will save hundreds of dollars on pads that are not a solution and you can also let go of the need to always have a bathroom close by.
Learn the true reasons for your situation and how you can eliminate the bothersome symptoms and feel like yourself again.
Take the 28-Day Challenge
I recommend you start your journey to living your best life symptom-free with the 28-day Challenge. It gives you a daily 10-minute workout and gentle reminders to get those workouts done. People expect the program will be several versions of Kegels done daily but are surprised to learn it is so much more! People who have taken the challenge have reported reducing or eliminating prolapse symptoms by 14 days with this whole-body approach.
Many women believe there is no hope because they have had this problem for years. With consistent attention to bladder retraining and a pelvic floor exercise program, you CAN make changes no matter your age or stage.
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