That sudden, intense urge to urinate that hits without warning — sometimes before you can reach a bathroom — is urge incontinence, often associated with overactive bladder. It affects millions, and it can seriously impact your quality of life. Emsella can help restore control.
During treatment, you sit fully clothed on the Emsella chair. The device uses High-Intensity Focused Electromagnetic (HIFEM) technology to stimulate deep pelvic floor muscles with thousands of supramaximal contractions per session. These contractions re-educate and strengthen weakened pelvic floor muscles, restoring neuromuscular control. Unlike voluntary kegel exercises — which only activate a subset of pelvic floor muscles — Emsella engages the entire pelvic floor musculature comprehensively.
Meet with Dr. Bromberg's team. We assess your goals, medical history, and determine if Emsella is right for you.
Sit comfortably on the Emsella chair — fully clothed. 28 minutes of electromagnetic pelvic floor stimulation.
Zero downtime. Return to all normal activities immediately. Some patients describe mild soreness like after a good workout.
Most patients notice improvement within 2-3 sessions. Optimal results after the full 6-session protocol.
Urge incontinence — the sudden, overwhelming need to urinate that sometimes results in leakage before reaching a bathroom — is mechanistically distinct from stress incontinence. While stress incontinence is a muscle strength problem, urge incontinence involves a dysfunctional neural feedback loop between the pelvic floor muscles and the detrusor muscle (the smooth muscle wall of the bladder). In healthy function, the pelvic floor muscles send proprioceptive signals to the central nervous system that help regulate detrusor activity. When the pelvic floor is engaged (contracted), it sends inhibitory signals that suppress premature detrusor contractions, allowing the bladder to fill to appropriate capacity before triggering the urge to void. When pelvic floor muscles weaken, this inhibitory feedback degrades. The detrusor muscle begins to contract prematurely and involuntarily — sometimes in response to minor stimuli like running water, cold air, or simply approaching a bathroom (the "key in the lock" phenomenon). Emsella's HIFEM protocol targets this feedback dysfunction from the muscular end of the loop. By strengthening the pelvic floor muscles and increasing their proprioceptive output, Emsella restores the inhibitory signaling that suppresses premature detrusor contractions. The supramaximal contractions also improve the pelvic floor's ability to physically override an unwanted detrusor contraction through reflex clamping — even if the detrusor fires prematurely, a stronger pelvic floor can generate enough counter-pressure to prevent leakage and buy time to reach a bathroom. Over the treatment series, patients typically experience both a reduction in the frequency and intensity of urgency episodes (from restored neural inhibition) and an improved ability to "hold it" when urgency does occur (from increased muscular strength). This addresses both the sensory and the motor components of urge incontinence.
Clinical Data Point
Clinical data shows significant reductions in urgency episodes, frequency of urination, and nocturia (nighttime urination) in patients with overactive bladder, with many patients able to reduce or discontinue anticholinergic medications.
Every Emsella treatment at Bromberg Wellness is personally supervised by Dr. Steven J. Bromberg — a physician with over 40 years of clinical experience. Not an aesthetician. Not a technician. A doctor.
Bromberg Wellness is a division of Bromberg Chiropractic — a Cambridge medical practice trusted since the 1980s.
Book Free Consultation →Every treatment plan is overseen by Dr. Steven J. Bromberg — not an aesthetician, not a technician. A doctor with four decades of medical experience.
We operate as a medical practice with clinical standards. Most Boston-area EMSculpt providers are aesthetician-led med spas. That distinction matters for your safety and results.
Emsella is FDA-cleared with published research demonstrating 95% patient satisfaction for urinary incontinence treatment.
No undressing, no invasive procedures. You sit on the Emsella chair fully clothed for the entire 28-minute session. It's that simple.
Combine Emsella with EMSculpt NEO for the complete Core-to-Floor protocol — strengthening both your abs and your pelvic floor in one treatment plan.
Emsella is FDA-cleared for both men and women. We treat post-prostate surgery incontinence, postpartum pelvic floor weakness, and age-related pelvic health.
"After six Emsella sessions, I can laugh, sneeze, and exercise without worrying. It genuinely changed my daily life. I wish I had done it sooner."
Stress incontinence, age 58
"Emsella is a life changer. It gave me more confidence, and I don't feel like I have to prepare for an emergency every time I leave the house."
Bladder leakage, age 52
"I had increasing incontinence after prostate treatment, and medication wasn't helping. After Emsella, my muscles are much stronger. I would recommend it to anyone."
Post-prostate incontinence, age 64
* Individual results may vary. Testimonials reflect personal experiences.
Yes. By strengthening the pelvic floor muscles and restoring neuromuscular control, Emsella helps reduce urgency, frequency, and leakage associated with overactive bladder.
Stress incontinence is leaking during physical activity (coughing, sneezing, exercise). Urge incontinence is a sudden, intense need to urinate. Many people experience both (mixed incontinence). Emsella addresses all types.
Improvement typically begins within 2-3 sessions, with continued gains over the full six-session protocol.
Many patients are able to reduce or discontinue OAB medications after Emsella treatment. Discuss any medication changes with your prescribing physician.
Absolutely. Emsella is FDA-cleared for both men and women experiencing urinary incontinence of all types.
Find out if Emsella is right for urge incontinence & overactive bladder. Our team will create a personalized treatment plan — no obligation, no pressure.
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