Incontinence can be challenging for almost anyone, and it can be particularly difficult for frail, older patients as well as those on Medicare and Medicaid. Today's guests are here to let you know that it doesn't have to be.

They're here to give us a sneak peek into a soon-to-be-published study that patients, physicians and caregivers can all take comfort in, because it demonstrates how an easy-to-implement program can generate significant symptom improvement and dramatically increase quality of life for incontinence sufferers.

For more than twenty years, Tenderheart Health Outcomes has been offering personalized incontinence coaching, high-quality products and close, personal support for members of the incontinence community. Now they've partnered with researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota to evaluate the effectiveness of a program that combines expert coaching, basic behavioral modifications, simple lifestyle changes and the use of appropriate absorbent products to generate measurable results in a population where effective treatments are often hard to come by.

It's a fascinating and important conversation with Tina Harris from Tenderheart, Dr. Diane K. Newman from the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Kristine Talley from the University of Minnesota.

You can also learn more by visiting Tenderheart online at https://www.tenderheart.com/about-us/news-and-research/ or calling 877-394-1860.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

If you've had enough of leaking when you laugh or cough or sneeze, if you've spent enough on pads and products to help keep you dry, and if you're tired of just managing your condition rather than seeing real improvements, we have good news for you: Stress urinary incontinence can be treated.

Today's guest is Gloria Kolb, founder and CEO of Elidah, the medical device company behind Elitone and Elitone Urge. The Elitone family of products are the only FDA-cleared external solutions that tone your pelvic floor and calm your overactive bladder.

Gloria discusses what Stress Urinary Incontinence is in detail, explains why it's so common and addresses the full range of treatments that patients have available to them.

To learn more about Elitone products, visit the website at Elitone.com.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

Menopause is something that every woman will have to contend with - and nowadays, women spend 40% or more of their lives following the transition. You'd think that something that's so common would be better understood. Unfortunately, there are still an enormous number of misconceptions about menopause - what it is, what to expect, how to treat it and more.

Today's guest is Ingrid Harm-Ernandes, a physical therapist with more than 40 years of clinical experience, here to dispel some of those misconceptions and help women have a more comfortable, confident journey through menopause and beyond.

She's currently co-director and mentor for the Women's Health Physical Therapy Residency Program at Duke University and a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the National Menopause Foundation. She's also the author of The Musculoskeletal Mystery: How to Solve Your Pelvic Floor Symptoms, aimed at helping women understand and address a range of pelvic floor conditions.

To get your copy of The Musculoskeletal Mystery, click here to purchase from Amazon.com or click here to purchase from DesertHarvest.com.

For more about Ingrid, visit her Facebook page here.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

With the recent announcement that former President Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, we've been hearing a lot of questions from our listeners about things like Gleason scores, hormone sensitivity and more. On today's episode, we're going to address those questions to give you a better understanding of the condition, how it's treated and what you can do for your own well-being.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

If you think that your only hope for treating overactive bladder is to focus on your pelvic floor muscles, you may be overlooking a different type of approach that's been proven successful for hundreds of thousands of patients: Nerve stimulation.

It turns out that certain nerves play a critical role in bladder function, and there are devices that can stimulate those nerves to substantially reduce leaks. Many patients find that their symptoms improve by 50% or more with a simple, in-office procedure called sacral neuromodulation.

Today's guest is Dr. Vikas Desai, a urologist, a board-certified member of the American Urologic Association and a member of the Society of Prosthetic Urologic Surgeons, to tell us more about it.

To learn more from Dr. Desai about bladder health, visit his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@DesaiUro.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

One thing that a lot of men who are facing prostate surgery often don't realize is that once the procedure is done, you're almost certain to experience bladder leaks. For most men, those leaks resolve after a few weeks or months, but for some, they can persist for years. The good news is that there are things you can do to improve your chances for rapid improvement, and today's guest, Dr. Vikas Desai, is here to explain how.

Dr. Desai is a urologist, a board-certified member of the American Urologic Association and a member of the Society of Prosthetic Urologic Surgeons with more than 16 years of clinical experience. To learn more from Dr. Desai about prostate care, men's and women's bladder health, treatments for sexual dysfunction and other topics, visit his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@DesaiUro.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

Anyone who lives with incontinence knows that leakage isn't just embarrassing or uncomfortable - it can create skin issues that range from simply irritating to genuinely endangering. Today's guest is Kolo Wilkinson, Clinical Nurse Lead with Tranquility Incontinence Products, and she shares with us advice and insight on how to best care for your skin, how to choose the most effective products and much, much more.

To learn more about incontinence-related skin care, download Tranquility’s FREE eBook, “Save Your Skin: Superabsorbent Solutions for Managing & Preventing Incontinence-Related Skin Issues.” https://tranquilityproducts.com/incontinence-basics-ebook/

To learn about Tranquility Incontinence Products and their range of incontinence products, visit them at https://tranquilityproducts.com/.

For more information about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.

Did you realize that half of all women will experience incontinence? Or that more people have incontinence than either diabetes or heart disease? As alarming as those figures are, incontinence is still something that too few people are willing to talk about, and the end result is that millions suffer in silence - often for years and years - even though there are treatments that can work wonders for them.

That's why NAFC is introducing the We Count campaign. We start with the facts and figures around incontinence to help women recognize that they’re not alone; then we go beyond the numbers to show that no matter what they’re going through, there’s a wide, welcoming community of providers and caregivers and fellow patients out there ready to help them overcome it all.

Our goal? To motivate women to speak up, reach out to their healthcare providers and learn all about today’s treatment options. Get started today by visiting our campaign page, where you can find a wealth of information and download a free discussion guide to make it easier than ever to start the conversation with you doctor:

www.NAFC.org/we-count

To learn more about the National Association for Continence, click here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Music:
Rainbows Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

TenderHeart Health Outcomes offers individualized care plans and superior products to meet your unique needs. Their coaching focuses on asking the right questions, and their high-quality products prevent leaking, are comfortable and skin friendly. Plus, their trained staff focuses on your individual needs. Your total satisfaction is their goal and healthy living is their mission. Learn more at www.tenderheart.com or call 1-877-394-1860 today.