Checklist - Urinary

Types Symptoms (check all that apply)* Treatment Options

You often leak small amounts of urine

You frequently need to go to the bathroom

• Treating the underlying condition • or disease • Scheduled bathroom trips „ • Pelvic muscle exercises

You feel the need to use the bathroom but aren’t physically able to get there in time (i.e., someone with arthritis may have a hard time unbuttoning their pants, resulting in an accident)

Functional incontinence

• Double voiding (waiting a few minutes after • going to try again, emptying the bladder) • Pelvic muscle exercises „ • Medication „ • Urinating on a schedule „ • Using a catheter „ • Surgery

Your bladder never completely empties

Overflow incontinence

• Treating a chronic cough „ • Pelvic muscle exercises „ • Medication „ • Urinating on a schedule „ • For women: urethral inserts „ • Surgery

Urine leaks when you cough, sneeze, laugh, jump or even walk

Stress incontinence

• Pelvic muscle exercises „ • Medication „ • Urinating on a schedule „ • Surgery

You regularly have an urgent need to go to the bathroom Urine often leaks before arriving at the toilet

Urge incontinence