Bladder Management with Multiple Sclerosis 🍂 Bladder issues are one of the most common (and often most frustrating) symptoms of living with MS, but it’s something many people don’t talk about openly. If you’ve experienced urgency, leakage, or difficulty emptying your...
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Bowel and Bladder management
IBD and MS: Is There a Connection?
IBD and MS: Is There a Connection? Did you know that inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, may be linked to Multiple Sclerosis? Recent studies indicate that individuals with IBD face a roughly 50% higher chance of...
MS And The Bowel
The sympathetic system is the “fight or flight” component, and directs energy and blood to skeletal muscle and other organs that will need the energy and in turn directs energies away from the gastrointestinal tract.Thus in the digestive system, it slows things down...
Urinary Catheters and Constipation Multiple Sclerosis
Why Using a Urinary Catheter Can Cause Constipation and What to Do About It By Becca Ironside I work as a pelvic floor physical therapist and I treat a lot of patients who rely on catheters to void urine. For many people with neurogenic bladders, the use of urinary...
Bladder and bowel problems
Bladder problems are common symptoms in multiple sclerosis and can have a big impact on many aspects of your everyday life. Around 75 in every 100 people with MS experience bladder problems, however this is an area where successful treatments are available and...



