What can women do to ease the problems associated with stress incontinence?
Most women mistakenly believe that stress incontinence is a normal part of aging. While that is not true, stress incontinence does primarily affect women ages 35 to 60 according to the World Health Organization.1 To help manage urinary incontinence more effectively, women may opt to wear special incontinence panties or incontinence pads. These manage the symptoms but will not take care of the problem. For controlling incontinence after pregnancy (following childbirth) or other forms of incontinence, women can choose injectables, slings, or an implantable female urinary incontinence device such as the ACT device (Adjustable Continence Therapy, commercially available only outside the United States).
