Female urinary incontinence is any involuntary leakage of urine. There are two types: urgency and stress incontinence. Urge incontinence is normally treated with medications and bladder training. Stress incontinence can be treated with medications and/or surgery. Stress incontinence is the loss of urine when you cough, sneeze, and laugh. We perform an outpatient procedure, called TVT, to correct stress incontinence.

Dr. Beier describes the procedure as follows:
“A TVT is an outpatient procedure done under a local or regional anesthetic block. A small graft is put in place to elevate the bladder neck and prevent or decrease stress incontinence. The procedure is done at the Culpeper Surgery Center. It takes about 45 minutes and involves two small incisions in the lower abdomen. Recovery time is 2-4 weeks and the success rate is approximately 80-85 percent. We have found this to be a significant improvement as compared to traditional surgical correction, which involved a 6 inch abdominal incision.”