Patient was educated on the risk factors for stress incontinence as follows:
- Senility
- Senior citizens are at risk of losing the overall muscle tone gradually. So, diminished tone of pelvic floor muscles can result in stress incontinence.
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Pregnancy and childbirth can weaken the muscles of pelvic floor, secondary to tissue damage, compromising the muscle tone and resulting in stress incontinence.
- Menopause in women
- Estrogen production is reduced in women at menopause.
- This results in thinning of connective tissue that normally offers support for the pelvic floor and sphincter muscles.
- When the supporting connective tissue is reduced, support for pelvic floor and sphincter muscles is compromised, resulting in stress incontinence.
- Surgeries on pelvic floor
- Surgeries for hysterectomy, resection of any colorectal cancer, and surgeries involving prostate can cause damage to the pelvic floor and weaken the muscles exercising control on urination.
- This weakening of muscles can result in stress incontinence.
