Overactive Bladder (OAB)

Like most medical conditions, there are specific physical symptoms associated with OAB. These include:

Urgency

Having a strong & sudden need to go to the bathroom right away.

Frequency
The need to go to the bathroom too often, also called "urinary frequency," generally the need to go to the bathroom 8 or more times per day.

Leakage
Leaking or wetting accidents, also called "urinary incontinence."

Additional Changes in Behavior

Besides the physical symptoms listed above, there can be other important clues that you may have OAB and are trying to cope with this condition.  These include:

• Cutting down on drinking fluids even when you're thirsty
• Needing to know exactly where a bathroom is at all times
• Bringing pads or extra clothes with you when you're away from home
• Avoiding going out - weddings, holidays, events, public speaking, etc.
• Wearing darker colors to hide leaks

How does Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine treat OAB?

Proper treatment from a Chinese Medicine perspective involves finding the appropriate pattern(s) for each individual patient.  The acupuncture points, techniques, and herbal medicines used will be focused around the specific patterns of the individual patient rather than being based on the specific condition of overactive bladder as it often is in western medicine. 

Individual pattern based medicine focuses on  the root issues of the person which can then improve any number of individual health issues including those which the person may not have yet experienced (i.e. true prevention).

The following list of related patterns are merely the most likely candidates when dealing with overactive bladder and incontinence, there are other causes and complicated cases may involved multiple patterns or complex relationships between patterns.

• Bladder Damp Heat
• Blood Stagnation
• Kidney Deficiency
• Lung Qi Deficiency
• Spleen Qi Deficiency

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