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Date:3/1/2008

e available options for treatment for these common disorders are physical therapy to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, devices that can be fit to support your vaginal walls, and surgery. Many of today's surgeries are very noninvasive and can be done as an outpatient," Luber said.

In the United States, more than 15 million women have stress urinary incontinence, 16 million have an overactive bladder, and one in 10 suffers from anal incontinence, according to information in a news release about the study.

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The U.S. National Institute of Child Health & Human Development has more about pelvic floor disorders.

-- Robert Preidt

SOURCE: Kaiser Permanente, news release, Feb. 29, 2008

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