Sentences with phrase «sphincter pelvic muscles»

Stress incontinence is caused by a weakening of the sphincter pelvic muscles, which support the bladder and urethra.

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Anal incontinence can result from damage to the pelvic floor muscles or nerves (or both) during delivery, or from a tear or another injury to the anal sphincter.

It happens due to weaknesses in the structures supporting the bladder and bladder outlet (urethra), mainly the pelvic floor muscles, which then fail to stop urine leaking out when the bladder is under stress, such as when laughing or sneezing, or because of a weakness in the sphincter muscle which normally holds the urethra closed.

We would retain the natural reflexes that cause the pelvic floor muscles to assist the urethral and anal sphincters by reflexively contracting before a cough or a sneeze to help keep us dry and leak - free.

You engage your pelvic floor muscles and the sphincter muscles around your anus to hold the fart in, and when you're in an appropriate place you can slowly (and quietly) release.

While performing a pelvic floor muscle contraction or squeezing the anal sphincter, we are actually closing the energy gap between the conception vessel and the governing vessel.

«The issue is typically weakness in the sphincter, which controls the opening to the bladder, or in the pelvic floor,» the muscles and ligaments that hold pelvic organs in place and support the bladder, says Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD, head of the section of urology and renal transplantation at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.

Faecal incontinence has been associated with damaged anal sphincter muscles, which perhaps can be surgically repaired, or injuries to the lumbar or pelvic area, with results from a nerve damage.

«You will learn if you are, in fact, contracting the right muscles of the pelvic floor and sphincters.