Swimming with an indwelling or suprapubic catheter
Having a urinary catheter shouldn’t stop you from taking part in your everyday activities, including swimming. Swimming can be easily incorporated into a regular exercise routine, provided that you take special care with your catheter before, during, and after a dip
Top 10 tips to help catheter users improve their mobility
A catheter user can still lead an active lifestyle with proper planning and knowledge. If you are a patient who requires an indwelling or a suprapubic catheter to help with passing urine – regardless of whether you have had a catheter
Going on holiday with a catheter
Having a catheter shouldn’t affect your everyday activities, including going on holiday. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence reckons that if a person uses a urinary catheter for more than four weeks, then the person is considered a long-term
How to insert a catheter into male patients
There are medical conditions that call for the use of a urinary catheter to drain urine from one’s bladder. Living with a condition like urinary incontinence, urinary retention and enlarged prostate are among the most common reasons why a male
UroShield is backed by science and data
Introducing a game-changing product to market takes a mammoth amount of work, time and money, more so if you’re launching an innovative medical device that can potentially introduce huge cost savings by preventing a common infection. To be taken seriously,
How UroShield can help patients with a pelvis injury
The pelvic bone is a basin-shaped ring of bones connecting our torso to our legs. Its primary functions are to bear the weight of the upper body when sitting and standing, pivoting the weight between the upper body and legs
How UroShield can help patients who are unconscious
Unconsciousness occurs when a person is unresponsive to the outside environment, such as voices or shaking. The condition can be temporary, such as when someone faints, or more prolonged, like in surgical anaesthesia or a coma. An unconscious person is
How UroShield can help the elderly
Urinary incontinence has many possible causes and it can afflict people of any age. However, many of these factors correspond with old age, which is why the elderly are more prone to bladder control problems. Some of the conditions that
How UroShield can help patients with spinal injury
The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves and tissues about the thickness of a finger, contained in a fluid-filled canal inside the backbone. It allows the brain to send instructions to the body, and also to receive signals from
How UroShield can help car crash victims
An automobile accident happens when a collision takes place between two cars, a car and a pedestrian, or a stationary object or any other vehicle. The outcome can be devastating to the victims due to a car’s hard metal exterior