There are two ways to perform a prenatal ultrasound. Technicians perform transvaginal ultrasounds by inserting a round wand into the vagina. This method is most common in the first trimester when the date of the mother's last menstrual period is...
The bladder is a hollow organ in the pelvis that expands to fill with the urine delivered by the kidneys. When the bladder is full, the bladder muscle contract, causing the urge to urinate and enabling urine to be expelled out of the body through...
Night bladder control develops gradually as bladder capacity increases and children learn to respond to the signals of a full bladder. Bedwetting, or enuresis, is a common problem in children, affecting more than five million children over the age...
Bed wetting is a common problem in children, no matter how embarrassing it may be for them. According to the Mayo clinic, it is often a developmental stage. For many parents though, it can frustrating as they attempt to determine the cause of...
The pubococcygeus muscle, or PC muscle, is one of the pelvic floor muscles that support the bowel and bladder in both sexes. In women, it also supports the uterus and vagina. A weak PC muscle can cause urinary and fecal incontinence and sexual...
Many factors can cause the bladder and pelvic floor muscles to weaken. Pregnancy, a persistent cough, childbirth or being overweight are all common causes. Weak bladder muscles can cause pain and incontinence. Fortunately, there are exercises that...
Bed-wetting can be frustrating for parents and embarrassing for children, especially the longer it continues. It has no specific cause; however, a number of risk factors exist that may make it easier to prevent, especially if the cause is a...
Many parents get anxious about starting their toddler potty training as soon as possible. After all, the lure of not having to pay for diapers or mess with stinky situations on a daily basis is pretty solid motivation for getting your child to...
Overview A wet dream is the uncontrolled ejaculation of semen from the penis during sleep. This is caused by sexual arousal and orgasm from dreams and/or...
An ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves that transmits through body tissues and provides an echo in return, showing up as a real-time video or photographic images. Renal ultrasounds detect and confirm any conditions related to the kidneys,...
Recovering from prostate surgery can be a trying time. In addition to allowing your body to heal there's the added concern of bladder control. It isn't uncommon for your bladder to not function like you remember, possibly forcing you to leave the...
The PC muscle, or pubococcygeus, is a muscle in the pelvic floor that connects the pubic bone to the tailbone. The muscle helps support the bowel and bladder and also the uterus in women. The exercises that can help strengthen the PC muscle are...
A tilted uterus, also known as retroversion of the uterus or a tipped uterus, occurs when the uterus or womb tilts backward as opposed to forward. Twenty percent or one in four women have a uterus that tilts backward at the cervix. A tilted cervix...
You wake up from a deep sleep only to find that the sheets you are sleeping on are soaking wet. It is not sweat; it is urine. Night time incontinence or nocturnal enuresior, more commonly known as bed-wetting, is a symptom of development and not a...
Blood pressure testing is a routine portion of any visit to a doctor's office. Unfortunately, some people suffer from "white coat syndrome," a colloquial term for anxiety in the doctor's office. Such anxiety can result in elevated readings, so...
According to the Alzheimer's Association, early detection can lead to treatment that can slow the progress of this brain disorder. Alzheimer's disease destroys brain cells and causes memory loss, confusion and dementia. Watching for the physical...
The bladder, which is responsible for storing and expelling urine, can sometimes develop problems in voiding, leading to bladder or urinary retention. This can cause the bladder to swell and become very painful and, in severe cases, burst.
Urination is a term that describes the emptying of your bladder, which receives excess fluid and waste materials from your kidneys. Normally, adults can control the number of times they urinate by stopping unwanted or inconvenient bladder...
The bladder is a hollow organ that is part of the body's excretory, or urinary, system. The bladder is located in the lower abdomen and is responsible for storing urine until it is eliminated from the body. Bladder disorders most commonly result...
Your senior years can be some of the best of your life, with plenty of time to enjoy family and pursue personal interests, but annoying health problems can interfere with your quality of life. One common malady is overactive bladder syndrome, or...
Underlying medical conditions cause distended bladder, a condition in which there's an inability to urinate even when the urge is felt. Anything that blocks the urethra from allowing the urine to flow, such as an enlarged prostate or kidney...
If you find yourself using the bathroom more often or feel the sudden and urgent need to go during the day and sometimes at night, you may have overactive bladder syndrome. It is not a deadly disease, but an inconvenient and embarrassing condition...
Urinary incontinence, otherwise known as bladder leakage, can be caused by weak pelvic floor muscles. Pregnancy, childbirth or simply growing older may weaken the muscles that keep your pelvic organs in place, contributing to bladder leakage. The...
If you develop abnormal, cancerous cells within the tissues of your prostate gland, you can be diagnosed with prostate cancer. After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting men within the United States. Estimates...
Approximately 12,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year in the United States, according to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center. About 41 percent of these injuries occur as a result of automobile accidents. Men comprise 80 percent...
You can call it bed-wetting or nocturnal enuresis, but it's all the same--an embarrassing problem for the child experiencing it. Bed-wetting is a developmental stage that most kids go through, according to MayoClinic.com. The site adds that...
Bedwetting, also called enuresis, is an extremely common occurrence, according to Kids Health. Although the exact cause of bedwetting is unknown, stress and your child’s inability to recognize her full bladder might be contributing factors....
Uterine prolapse is when a portion of the uterus descends into the vaginal canal. The uterine wall is made up of smooth muscles that cannot be contracted, so no exercise exists to directly strengthen the uterus. Instead, medical professionals...
Interstitial cystitis (IC), also called painful bladder syndrome, is a term used to describe painful bladder and pelvic symptoms not attributable to any known cause, according to the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse...