Relief for Incontinence Embarrassment causes many women to keep quiet about urinary leakage. But their silence may only be stopping them from addressing this common condition. Incontinence is usually caused by childbirth. All women are equally likely to develop incontinence.
Surgery is the only treatment for incontinence.
There is nothing a woman can do to prevent incontinence. About Incontinence 1. Childbirth can weaken pelvic muscles, which contributes to stress incontinence. Women who have stress incontinence involuntarily lose urine during physical exertion, such as when exercising. However, childbirth is only one cause of pelvic muscle weakness.