Bladder

Your bladder is the hollow muscular organ, located within the abdominal region, which is responsible for storing and expelling urine.

It expands in order to store urine until it [urine] is released via the sphincter into the urethra, the penis and finally out of the body.

When urine escapes or is expelled from the bladder inappropriately, urinary incontinence occurs.

detrusan® is an FDA approved electrical stimulation therapy which is highly effective in treating many of the causes of incontinence.

detrusan® is a breakthrough FDA approved therapy for the treatment of urinary incontinence. If you suffer from UI, please take the time to peruse the information in this site and see if detrusan® is right for you.

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