stress incontinence
Bladder <a href=”http://qwesz.info/business/advertising/stress-incontinence.html”>stress incontinence</a> is perhaps the most common form of incontinence in women. This sis attributed to the stretching and damage that can occur to the muscles in the pelvic floor during childbirth. While women may not experience incontinence immediately after giving birth, the damage has been done and can cause the condition to appear years later.
One of the most common treatments for stress incontinence is exercise, specifically Kegel exercises. This regimen identifies the muscles in the pelvic floor and then tones and strengthens them providing better support for the bladder. Surgery is also an option but has always been considered the least desirable therapy.
All that may change thanks to an amazing surgical procedure involving stem cells that is being evaluated in Austria. In 2004 a medical group started treating bladder stress incontinence using the patients own stem cells. A biopsy is taken from the bicep and new muscle cells and connective tissue cells are gathered. Then using a newly patented technique these cells are grown in a culture and after 6 weeks the biopsy cells can grow 50 million of each type of cell.
These cells are then injected into the weakened urethra and sphincter using a 3D ultrasound as a guide. These amazing cells will then build muscle mass and tone and then stop growing when there is sufficient mass. The fact that the cells come from the patient eliminates the problem of rejection.
One of the unfortunate side effects for women of child birth can be stress incontinence – an inability to control their bladder as a result of the pressure that has been exerted on it by the fetus over the previous nine months.
After the baby has been delivered many women find it difficult to return their bladder functioning to how it was before pregnancy.
In the past stress incontinence treatments focused on such methodologies as surgery or Kegel exercises. And while new treatments were often launched these tended to be simply minor improvements on what was already being done to fix the problem.
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