**4.2 Urinary incontinence**

Urinary incontinence can be divided into two main groups- stress incontinence and urgency incontinence. Stress incontinence occurs when the pelvic floor is exposed to stress, for example during coughing, laughing or during physical exertion. In can be further divided into degrees, depending on the situation when loss of urine occurs.


Urgency incontinence describes the loss of urine combined with a sudden urge to urinate. A special form of urgency incontinence is the overactive bladder syndrome, which is defined as urge to urinate, which can or cannot be accompanied by urge incontinence, usually escorted by a high micturition interval and nocturia. Stress and urgency often occur together [10].
