New Mobility: The magazine for active wheelchair users

Women Who Cath

By Roxanne Furlong

February 2013

For most wheelers, catheterizing comes with a disability of MS, SCI, polio, spina bifida or other condition that can cause your brain and bladder to stop talking to one another. Cathing helps relieve the bladder, but for women, a shorter urethra causes a higher risk than men of contracting urinary tract infections. With proper hygiene and catheter usage, the number of UTIs you acquire ...

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