Published on Nov 1, 2017 by Eric S. Rovner, MD Professor of Urology Medical University of South Carolina | Regain Health, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a condition characterized by urinary urgency, frequency with or without incontinence, and is often treated with a combination of behavioral therapy, pelvic floor exercises and/or pharmacotherapy. A variety of oral pharmacological drugs and...
Published on Mar 1, 2016 | Men's Health, Regain Health, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor, Women's Health
More common in women than in men, overactive bladder can be an inconvenient, uncomfortable, and disconcerting condition. However, several treatment options are available. Frequent urination, sudden and overwhelming urges to urinate, and urinary leakage throughout the...
Published on Feb 18, 2016 by by: The UT Erlanger Urology Team | Stay Well, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor
More than 500,000 Americans visit the emergency room with kidney stones each year. These hard, often painful-to-pass mineral deposits develop when crystal-forming waste products — such as calcium, oxalate, struvite, and uric acid — become too abundant for the fluid in...
Published on Sep 25, 2015 by Juan Class, ACNP | Men's Health, Stay Well, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor, Women's Health
Your kidneys keep you healthy by filtering waste and extra water from your blood, which then leave the body in urine. Kidney disease results from damage, over time, to the tiny structures inside the kidneys that filter the blood. When the kidneys are damaged, they...
Published on Sep 23, 2015 by Pat O’Donnell, M.D. | Men's Health, Regain Health, Stay Well, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor, Women's Health
It starts suddenly with a sharp, stabbing pain — usually in the flank or lower abdomen. As the waves of pain progress, nausea and vomiting may occur. No matter how hard you try, the pain won’t go away. What could cause such a sudden problem? It could be a kidney...
Published on Jul 16, 2014 | Erlanger News, Urology & Incontinence, Urology, Incontinence & Pelvic Floor
Erlanger Health System welcomes the addition of two new physicians: Joshua Alpers, MD, with the UT Erlanger Neurology Group, and Christopher Keel, DO, with Academic Urologists at Erlanger. Joshua Alpers, MD Dr. Joshua Alpers, who is board-certified in neurology,...
