{"id":1871,"date":"2019-11-13T01:37:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2020-01-15T01:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:54:19","slug":"not-sure-if-your-bladder-is-overactive-heres-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Not Sure If Your Bladder is Overactive, Here&#8217;s a Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Learning the basic signs, causes and cures of an overactive bladder can make a disastrous health problem easier for you to get help for. The newest technology we have is Emsella pelvic floor therapy. It is non-invasive, it works with more traditional therapies, and can be used by most women and men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top Signs of overactive bladder (OAB) are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Urinating during the night<\/li><li>Urgently having to urinate when you first feel\nthe sensation that you need to go to the bathroom<\/li><li>Having a bit of incontinence before you make it\nto the bathroom, or when you think you already finished urinating<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The top causes of overactive bladder (OAB) are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nervous system disorder: either a neurologic\ndisease or a disease of the bladder nerves firing out of normal sequence so\nthat the bladder contracts on its own without rhyme or reason<\/li><li>Pelvic Floor Disorder<\/li><li>Genital or Urinary tract disorder<\/li><li>Obesity<\/li><li>Hormone imbalance or deficiency<\/li><li>Pelvic Floor Surgery<\/li><li>Unclear as to the exact cause <\/li><li>Imbalance in the numbers of healthy or \u2018good\u2019\nbacteria in your bladder<\/li><li>Fewer numbers of different species of bacteria<\/li><li>Are you a Diabetic?<\/li><li>Have you had pelvic surgery, including a\nhysterectomy or bladder repir?<\/li><li>Small bladder capacity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Treatment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Should be tackled with several strategies<\/li><li>Pelvic Floor therapy is the first strategy, we have been excited about all of our non-invasive therapies, including Emsella, ThermiVa, and MonaLisa. Emsella can be used by men and women. <\/li><li>Medications <\/li><li>Botox treatment of the bladder<\/li><li>Neuromodulation such as PTNS<\/li><li>Only 50% of women prescribed medication will notice effectiveness<\/li><li>About 50-80% of women on these medicines will notice some negative effects on how they think<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the basic signs, causes and cures of an overactive bladder can make a disastrous health problem easier for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-gyno-health","tag-bladder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}