Most Common Causes of Bladder Incontinence?
The lack of adequate accessibility to bathrooms, toilets, and personal assistants in transfers and donning/doffing garments continues to be, in our opinion, the major source of incontinence in adults with Cerebral Palsy. Additional causes of incontinence include about a 10% incidence of neurogenic bladder in children and adults creating urgency and frequency of voiding with small volume bladders and high voiding pressures. This condition of neurogenic bladder appears to be more common in individuals with bilateral involvement of cerebral palsy (both sides). It can also be associated with an increased incidence of urinary tract infections as can other forms of incontinence in cerebral palsy.
