What Is an Atonic Bladder

Atonic (or acontractile) bladder is a medical condition where patients are unable to spontaneously urinate due to insufficient detrusor muscle contraction, usually due to neurologic disease or injury.

What can cause atonic bladder?

• Alzheimer’s disease.
• tumors of the brain or spinal cord.
• multiple sclerosis.
• Parkinson’s disease.
• injury to the spinal cord.
• spinal cord birth defects, such as spina bifida.
• stroke.

What are the signs and symptoms of neurogenic bladder?

• Urinary tract infection (UTI)
• Kidney stones.
• Urinary incontinence (unable to control urine)
• Small urine volume during voiding.
• Urinary frequency and urgency.
• Dribbling urine.
• Loss of feeling that the bladder is full.