bladder-health

How doctors treat urinary retention in women, from catheters and pessaries to pelvic floor therapy, bladder training and sacral nerve stimulation.

What the bladder looks like, how big it gets, its four parts and three layers, and how your pelvic floor muscles help keep it under control.

Bladder support means two different things — the anatomy holding it in place and the supplements sold for it. Here is what each one actually does.

Bladder training exercises are not kegels. Here are both drills — the bladder schedule and the pelvic floor work — and how to run them together.

The bladder muscle is smooth muscle you cannot contract on command. Here is what it does, how it fails, and the muscle you can actually train instead.