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Houston Resources For Caregivers: Care for Caregivers
The last installment of United Spinal Association of Houston’s Conversation and Learn Series was on November 14th and it was one for the books. This final event was called We've got your back: Care for Caregivers and was all about Caregivers and exploring the local support services committed to simplifying life...

Why are Voiding Diaries important?
Click Here For Downloadable Voiding Diary With Instructions. Having a voiding diary is beneficial when gauging your bladder health as one experiences changes. It is not only useful for you but can be extremely useful to your physician. They can use this to identify symptoms and triggers, more accurately identify your...

Preventing Stress Incontinence During Physical Activity: 4 Tips
It’s no secret that exercise is one of the keys to staying healthy, but stress incontinence can make exercising difficult. However, it is possible to reduce or even prevent stress incontinence when engaging in physical activity. Tips to Manage Stress Incontinence 1) Bladder Training and Health Bladder training can prevent...

Get To Know The Complete Care Medical Team
In honor of the holidays, we wanted to let you all get to know our team a little bit better. We think that since our moto is “putting patients first in everything that we do” and being a family-oriented business, it is important for you to know a little bit...

Urology Supplies And You: The Need-To-Know For A Healthy Flow
As people age, urinary issues can be common and can even be associated with certain illnesses. The list of urological and incontinence supplies needed to appropriately address some urinary issues can be extensive, and at times, difficult to properly maintain. Still, that list is essential to healthy urinary function, so...

Spina Bifida Awareness For The Month Of October And Beyond
We're kicking off Spina Bifida Awareness Month as October gets underway. During this time, we're spreading knowledge concerning one of the most common birth defects in the United States. For being the most common, there's a surprising learning gap that Spina Bifida advocates are seeking to close. That's what we're...

Coping With Cancer And Resources To Help
Cancer. The word no one wants to hear. Unfortunately, every second someone out there is struggling with it. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed, going through treatment, have beaten cancer, or are the loved one of someone going through it, you know it changes your life and it is an extremely...

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: How Prostate Cancer Relates to Urinary Incontinence
Urinary incontinence simply means that you have less control or no control over your bladder. Lots of people have urinary incontinence, but until recently, there was very little research being done to better understand it. One area of interest is it's relation to prostate cancer. Unlike most other risk factors, prostate...

3 Proven Ways to Avoid UTIs After Prostate Cancer Surgery (2018)
Prostate Cancer surgery and the recovery time following the operation, can be tough on your body. Often times, a urinary catheter may be needed to void the bladder completely through the healing process. Catheter associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTIs, are often a result of having an indwelling catheter, although...

4 Benefits of Getting Older
Usually when the thought of getting older comes up it has a negative stigma around it, but growing older isn’t all that bad. The month of September is Healthy Aging Month and it is the month to bring awareness to the benefits of aging. According to Carolyn Worthington, editor-in-chief of...

Houston Resources to Discover Your Abilities
Adaptive Music, Art, Sports, Wellness Opportunities, and Help Groups United Spinal Houston put on their 3rd of their 4 part series this week, Discover Your Abilities, and it was one for the books. There was a huge turnout and everyone was enjoying every second of it! Other than the...

The Amazing Benefits of Breastfeeding
As an expectant mother, you've probably heard a lot about breastfeeding. You have people telling you to try it and others telling you not to. Well, the first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week (created by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action), and the month of August is National...