After toilet training, individuals hold urine and empty their bladders at will. However, many adults experience incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine.

Symptoms vary from minimal leakage requiring almost no behavior modification to continuous and significant leakage that can be physically and socially crippling.

Some patients experience incontinence with sudden "urges" for the need to void; some with abdominal strain. In other people, this leakage occurs without any notice whatsoever. Incontinence is a common problem, affecting millions of individuals both male and female.

Women, for a variety of reasons, are...