Female Urinary Incontinence Treatments

First line treatments usually include physical therapy, behavioral changes, and in some cases medication. When medication doesn’t work, you may need surgery to treat your incontinence. Surgery can also help if a physical problem like pelvic prolapse causes your incontinence.

Urologists at Emory Healthcare offer several procedural options:

• Bulking injections: This procedure is an injection of material around the urethra to increase the tightness of the urethra and reduce leakage from stress urinary incontinence.
• Sling procedure: This minimally invasive procedure is the most common treatment for stress incontinence. This surgery places a strip of either mesh or tissue under the urethra to increase support and reduce leakage. This helps many women to significantly reduce or even eliminate their leakage.
• eCoin: This minimally invasive procedure is an implant that provides stimulation of the nerves in the leg that also relax the nerves that control the bladder. This is used for overactive bladder and urge urinary incontinence.
• Botox injection: This procedure involves injections of medicine into the bladder muscle that relaxes these muscles and reduces urinary urgency and urge urinary incontinence.

Incontinence During Pregnancy

For female incontinence related to pregnancy and pelvic floor disorders, our Emory Healthcare Gynecology and Obstetrics colleagues offer evaluation and treatments.