Stress incontinence — leaking urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh, lift, or exercise — happens when your pelvic floor muscles aren't strong enough to support your bladder. It's incredibly common after childbirth, during menopause, and as we age. Emsella can help.
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.
Stress incontinence is a failure of the urethral closure mechanism — specifically, a failure of the pelvic floor muscles to generate rapid, reflexive contractions strong enough to clamp the urethra shut when intra-abdominal pressure spikes (during a cough, sneeze, jump, or heavy lift). Effective urethral closure requires both types of skeletal muscle fibers: fast-twitch (Type II) fibers that generate the rapid, powerful contractions needed for immediate closure, and slow-twitch (Type I) fibers that maintain sustained baseline tone to keep the urethra sealed at rest. In stress incontinence, both fiber types have typically degraded — fast-twitch fibers have atrophied from disuse, and slow-twitch fibers have lost their tonic contractile capacity. Emsella's HIFEM protocol addresses both fiber populations through varied contraction patterns. The treatment cycle alternates between high-frequency bursts (which preferentially recruit and strengthen fast-twitch fibers) and sustained contractions (which target slow-twitch endurance fibers). This dual-pattern stimulation mirrors the physiological demands of actual urethral closure: you need fast-twitch fibers to slam the urethra shut in the milliseconds before a cough generates peak abdominal pressure, and you need slow-twitch fibers to maintain resting closure between events. Over six sessions, the supramaximal contractions force both fiber populations through progressive overload — the same stimulus that drives muscle adaptation in strength training, but at an intensity and comprehensiveness impossible to achieve through voluntary kegel exercises. The result is a pelvic floor that can generate faster, stronger reflex closure responses while maintaining higher baseline tone, addressing the two biomechanical failures that define stress incontinence.
Clinical Data Point
Published studies report that 75% of treated patients reduced pad usage by at least 50%, with improvement in both reflexive closure speed and resting pelvic floor tone, measured by perineometry and validated quality-of-life questionnaires.
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.
Stress incontinence is caused by weakened pelvic floor muscles, often due to pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, aging, or surgery. When these muscles can't adequately support the bladder, any abdominal pressure causes leakage.
Clinical studies show that 95% of patients report significant improvement in quality of life after Emsella treatment, with many patients reducing or eliminating pad usage entirely.
Emsella delivers 11,000 supramaximal contractions per session — engaging the entire pelvic floor far more completely than voluntary kegel exercises, which only activate a subset of muscles.
Many patients notice improvement after just 2-3 sessions. Optimal results develop over the full six-session treatment course and continue to improve for weeks after.
After the initial six-session protocol, maintenance sessions (typically twice a year) help sustain your results long-term.
Find out if Emsella is right for stress incontinence. Our team will create a personalized treatment plan — no obligation, no pressure.
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