{"id":95660,"date":"2019-06-02T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/02\/bluetooth-your-bladder-the-hi-tech-way-to-beat-incontinence\/"},"modified":"2019-06-02T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:00:36","slug":"bluetooth-your-bladder-the-hi-tech-way-to-beat-incontinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95660","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth your bladder: the hi-tech way to beat incontinence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urinary leakage affects millions of women, who have often suffered in silence. That may change with Elvie, a new way to strengthen the pelvic floor \u2013 involving an appThere are nappies in my wardrobe, but I have no children nor a sexual fetish. Instead, I have a problem shared by millions of women (and some men): I cannot always control my bladder as well as I want to, no matter how many toilet visits I have made beforehand. I have incontinence, and I am not alone: in the UK, up to 40% of women have incontinence at some point, either because they have given birth or are menopausal, because of genetics, or simply because of age. Up to 70% of expectant and new mothers experience incontinence, and a quarter of men over 40 \u2013 though, given how shameful it is thought to be, the figures are likely to be conservative. We mask, we hide, we cope.The pelvic floor \u2013 a sling of muscles stretching from the tailbone to the pubic bone \u2013 supports the bladder, bowel and womb. These muscles are meant to contract to stopper any flow of urine. (The muscles are also sometimes referred to as a \u201ctrampoline\u201d \u2013 a sour joke for women who know trampolining is a sure way to wet pants.) Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jun\/02\/pelvic-floor-bladder-urinary-leakage-incontinence-women-bluetooth-elvie\" target=\"_blank\">Bluetooth your bladder: the hi-tech way to beat incontinence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urinary leakage affects millions of women, who have often suffered in silence. That may change with Elvie, a new way to strengthen the pelvic floor \u2013 involving an appThere are nappies in my wardrobe, but I have no children nor a sexual fetish. Instead, I have a problem shared by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}