Normal Bladder Function

How Your Bladder Works

When you eat and drink, your body absorbs the liquid. Kidneys filter out waste products from these fluids and make urine. Urine travels down tubes called ureters into a muscular sac called the urinary bladder, which stores the urine. When the bladder is full, nerves in your bladder signal the brain and you are soon ready to go to the bathroom. You get the urge to go to the bathroom. Once you reach the toilet, your brain sends a message down to the sphincter and pelvic floor muscles, telling them to relax. The brain signal also tells bladder muscles to squeeze urine out of the bladder.

  The bladder control system includes:

* The bladder which holds urine and is muscle shaped like a balloon when full.

* The urethra which is the tube from the bladder that drains urine out of the body.

* Two sphincter muscles the open and close the urethra.

What do bladder control muscles do?

  Three sets of muscles control urine. One set is the bladder muscle itself. The second set is sphincter muscles that open and close the urethra.
  The third set is the muscles at the bottom of the pelvic bowl generally called the pelvic floor muscles. They support the uterus, rectum, and bladder. Sometimes pelvic muscles get stretched and weak. When this happens, organs in the pelvic bowl sag and women can have trouble holding their urine. Luckily, exercising the pelvic muscles can often make them strong again.


Healthy sphincter muscles can keep the urethra closed. Sometimes nerves are damaged by childbirth or other events. The damaged nerves signal the bladder muscles to squeeze urine out at the wrong times. Medical treatment can help women with this problem.

Bladder control means you urinate only when you want to. For good bladder control, all parts of your system must work together, organs, muscles and nerves.

Bladder Coaching by telephone: 1/2 hour session

Reclaim bladder control with 1-on-1 coaching

 

Bladder Coaching by telephone: 1/2 hour session
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Many people regain bladder control just following the instructions in the Mind Over Bladder books. Sometimes, a little coaching makes all the pieces fall into place.

Coaching sessions are conducted by phone with Jennifer Stephens, MA, BCIA-Senior Fellow. Please call 707/869-9029 or email jennifer@MindOverBladder.com to arrange a time for her to call you.

 

 

 

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Reclaim control

Simple to learn bladder control techniques

 

Bladder Fitness ebooks Special Offer
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