Urinary incontinence in women is often caused by a problem with the muscles that control urination. The organism stores urine in the bladder, which is connected to the urethra, through which urine is expelled from the body. During urination, the bladder muscles contract, allowing urine to pass from the bladder into the urethra, while the sphincter around the urethra relaxes, allowing urine to pass out. Urinary incontinence occurs when there is a sudden contraction of the bladder forcing muscles or a sudden relaxation of the urethral sphincter. The incidence of urinary incontinence in women is about twice that of men. The causes include pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, and changes in the structure of the female urethra that can lead to incontinence. In addition, both men and women can suffer from incontinence due to nerve damage, congenital defects, stroke, multiple sclerosis and aging. The incidence of urinary incontinence increases with age. Older women are more likely to suffer from incontinence than younger women. There are many types of incontinence: stress incontinence, urge incontinence, urge incontinence, filling incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, etc. Different types of incontinence clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, treatment methods are very different, the effect is not the same, as the saying goes, the loss of a millimeter, a thousand miles. Therefore, urinary incontinence treatment should be preceded by a proper diagnosis at a professional doctor. The two most common types of urinary incontinence are described below. 1. Stress incontinence If you have urine leakage when you cough, laugh, sneeze; exercise, or exert yourself, then you may have stress urinary incontinence. Stress incontinence can be caused by changes in the body caused by pregnancy, childbirth and menopause. The most common cause of stress incontinence is pelvic floor muscle relaxation and defective urethral sphincter function. This is the most common type of female urinary incontinence, and there are now excellent minimally invasive surgical methods that can effectively treat stress incontinence. 2, urge incontinence If you suddenly feel a strong urge to urinate and cannot be controlled by your will and urine flows out through the urethra, then you may be suffering from urge incontinence. The most common cause of urge incontinence is an inappropriate contraction of the bladder. When patients come to the doctor, they often tell the doctor this, I suddenly want to urinate, but before I have time to go to the bathroom or too late to unpants urine is solved. Urge incontinence occurs for two reasons, one is caused by neurological lesions, such as stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, etc., and the other is caused by non-neurological lesions, such as bladder outlet obstruction, stress incontinence, etc. These are the common types of urinary incontinence. In any case, it needs to be stressed that if you suffer from incontinence, all you need to do is to overcome the psychological pressure, go to the doctor, seek the right treatment and improve your quality of life.