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Stress Incontinence and How Physiotherapy Helps at Home

Close-up of a woman sitting with her hands pressed over her lower abdomen, indicating discomfort or urgency to urinate, with blog title text overlay about stress incontinence and physiotherapy.

What Is Stress Incontinence?

If you’ve ever leaked a little when you laugh, sneeze, run, or lift something heavy, you are not alone. Stress incontinence is one of the most common pelvic floor challenges, especially after childbirth, hormonal changes, or surgery. It’s frustrating, often embarrassing, but entirely treatable.


Here’s a gentle reminder: Leaking is a symptom, not your fault — and your body is absolutely capable of healing and improving with the right care.


What Causes It?

Stress incontinence happens when abdominal pressure rises: from coughing, sneezing, or physical activity and the pelvic floor can’t fully support the urethra.


Medical diagram comparing a normal bladder with one experiencing stress incontinence. The normal bladder shows no leakage, while the stress incontinence bladder shows urine leakage under pressure.

That can happen when pelvic tissues are:

  • Weakened from lack of strength or past injuries

  • Stretched after pregnancy or delivery

  • Tight and uncoordinated from tension or guarding

  • Fatigued by surgery, high-impact activity, or hormonal changes

You didn’t cause this — and you don’t have to live with it.


How Physiotherapy Helps

Pelvic floor physiotherapy is one of the most effective, non-surgical treatments for stress incontinence.


Woman performing a pelvic bridge exercise on a yoga mat in a living room, aimed at strengthening pelvic floor muscles to help manage stress incontinence.

A pelvic health physiotherapist can help you:

  • Learn how to activate and relax your pelvic floor properly

  • Build strength, endurance, and timing

  • Improve breathing and pressure management

  • Re-train the bladder and urethra support muscles

  • Develop daily strategies for lifting, sneezing, and movement

  • Move through life with confidence and control


At ĀLow Mobile Physio, this care happens in your home with comfort, privacy, and no clinic waiting rooms.


Recovery Is Possible

With a consistent, personalized plan, many people experience major improvements or full resolution of leaking.


You don’t have to avoid laughing, exercising, or being active.

You just need the right support — and we’re here to bring it to you.


Book Your In-Home Assessment Today

Let’s build strength and control from the inside out with a plan tailored to your body, your comfort, and your goals.


Book an in-home visit now: https://www.alowphysio.com/contact


Location:

ĀLow Mobile Physio, #707, 1160 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E8


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(604) 861-3454


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