What is urinary incontinence?

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine. Well, that sounds very simple. There are many causes for urinary incontinence. There are many types of urinary incontinence and those different types each have their own cause. Stress incontinence, for example, is usually caused by the loss of support to the bladder neck, so when you cough, sneeze, laugh, bend over you will get a small little spurt of urine that will leak out.