Abstract
All health professionals are familiar with the problem of stress urinary incontinence in females. Female anatomy predisposes to incontinence of urine due to sphincter weakness and in particular in association with childbirth. Health professionals however are less likely to be aware of the problem of stress incontinence in males, which does not usually occur as a primary condition. Since a male is not subjected to childbirth, the pelvic floor does not become weak unless it is affected by specific medical conditions. Thus stress urinary incontinence is much less common in males and less likely to present. Men have a tendency to draw less attention to the problem of urinary incontinence. Although a cause of much distress, incontinence in males tends to often remain a hidden condition. Incontinence is a common condition worldwide and leads to much suffering and in addition significant cost to society.
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van der Aa, F., Cornu, JN., Farag, F., Shah, J. (2016). Male Stress Incontinence. In: Heesakkers, J., Chapple, C., De Ridder, D., Farag, F. (eds) Practical Functional Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25430-2_6
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