Urology

This is when you need to urinate often and suddenly. It happens when the muscles that control your bladder have spasms. These spasms can force out urine even when your bladder isn't full. When you feel the need to go, you may have only a few seconds to get to the toilet.

This condition is an inability to hold back urine when pressure or physical stress is placed on the bladder. Stress incontinence can cause embarrassing incidents of wet clothing.

This outpatient procedure is a series of long-lasting injections of botulinum toxin (commonly referred to by the brand name BOTOX®) administered into the muscle of the bladder wall to control the spasms that result in overactive bladder. The injections are performed through a cystoscope, a thin viewing telescope equipped with a light and camera that is inserted through the urethra. The procedure takes about 10-15 minutes to perform.

This procedure looks inside your bladder. Your doctor uses a viewing device called a "cystoscope." There are two types of cystoscopes. Flexible scopes are used only for viewing. Rigid scopes also have a channel to pass small instruments through.