Episode 1607 - Tips to control urinary urgency #PTonICE Daily Show

Dr. Jessica Gingerich // #ICEPelvic // www.ptonice.com


In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, #ICEPelvic faculty member Jess Gingerich discusses subjective & objective measurements to use to track & manage urinary urgency, as well as tools and techniques to utilize in the clinic with patients who are actively symptomatic. 
Take a listen to learn how to better serve this population of patients & athletes.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
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JESS GINGERICH
Good morning. I'm sorry about that. I think I was having some difficulty with my internet. Welcome to the PT on ICE daily show. My name is Dr. Jessica Gingrich and I am on faculty here with the pelvic division at ICE. I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving and was able to spend some time with some family and enjoy some downtime. Today, we are going to talk about some clinical pearls of urinary urgency. How can we get objective data to track this progress? And some powerful interventions to help get this under control and really get your patients their lives back. So this can be something that really holds people back from living their life, whether that's at the gym or really doing anything, going out and doing fun things with family and friends, going out shopping. It can really be controlling. So before we get started, we're gonna talk about some housekeeping items. Our next online cohort begins January 9th. So head over to the website to sign up and secure your spot. We have a few more live courses to round out the year. So if you are looking to dial in some of your internal assessments and then treat that higher-level athlete, Head over to ptonice.com to sign up. We also have some certifications rolling out in the new year, so keep a lookout for what you need in order to become ICE-certified for whatever division you're interested in.

URINARY URGENCY
So, no one talks about bladder habits that we should or really maybe even should not be paying attention to. No one tells us that some of our favorite things like coffee and carbonated beverages, alcohol, can be negatively impacting our brain's ability to tell us when we're full or even if it's irritating to the inner lining of our bladder. We learn to pee just in case or to ignore our first urge and replace it with something other than water. So again, caffeine, carbonated beverages, et cetera. We learn habits that allow our bladder to control us rather than us controlling our bladder. So urinary urgency is a strong and sometimes uncontrollable urge to urinate. This is something where it is smacking some