Incontinence

Abstract

Urinary incontinence (UI) is defi ned as an involuntary loss of urine. It is subdivided into (a) stress incontinence whereby involuntary loss of urine is on physical exertion or effort or on sneezing or coughing, (b) urgency incontinence is involuntary loss of urine when associated with or preceded by urgency, and (c) mixed incontinence is a mixture of the two types whereby involuntary loss of urine is associated with both urgency and on physical exertion or effort or on sneezing or coughing. Urgency is defi ned as ’the complaint of a sudden compelling desire to pass urine’ [ 1 ].