Di Wu brings a uniquely powerful perspective to male pelvic health as a clinician who has practiced on both sides of the referral equation. Initially trained as a medical doctor, he completed his residency in Beijing and practiced as an orthopedic surgeon for several years before establishing himself in Montreal, Canada.
At McGill University, he was the first man to enroll in the pelvic floor physical therapy course, where he pioneered adaptations of female-focused protocols to effectively treat male patients. Over the past decade, drawing from his dual background as a physician and physical therapist, Wu has built evidence-based frameworks that produce repeatable and reliable treatment results for male pelvic pain and dysfunction.
He is the founder of Integrated Pelvic Care (IPC) and has dedicated his career to addressing the clinical reasoning gap in male pelvic health through education and mentorship. Wu has conducted several clinical studies in men's health physical therapy and has developed systematic approaches to implementing International Continence Society terminology in clinical practice.
His teaching emphasizes the importance of standardized terminology and advanced clinical reasoning to elevate physical therapy's role from a secondary referral option to the primary standard of care for male pelvic health conditions. His work has significantly advanced the field by creating systematic approaches that allow physical therapists to confidently and effectively address underserved conditions like BPH.
Articles by Dr. Di Wu, MD, PT
Trial of Void Protocol After Surgery
A trial of void protocol is a catheter-removal decision with a pass number, not a checklist: thresholds, methods, and the surgery-by-surgery retention map.
17 min read
How to Use a Bladder Scanner
A bladder scanner returns a number with false confidence: a late, off-midline, or wrong-preset scan manufactures a residual that derails the voiding workup.
12 min read
Post-Micturition Dribbling: Confirm First
Post-micturition dribble is usually a benign urethral leak, but the same complaint can be overflow from a bladder that never emptied. Here is the differential.
9 min read
Bladder Outlet Obstruction: Prove It
Bladder outlet obstruction is the diagnosis a flow rate cannot make: low flow means a blocked outlet or a weak detrusor, and only pressure-flow separates them.
12 min read
Stress Urinary Incontinence: The Workup
Stress urinary incontinence is the leak you can diagnose from the bladder diary and a cough test, before urodynamics: a clinician's workup, causes to treatment.
15 min read
Urinary Urgency: Phenotype Before You Prescribe
Urinary urgency masquerades as overactive bladder. Phenotype it on the bladder diary, excluding overflow and fluid imbalance, before reaching for a drug.
25 min read
Uroflowmetry Interpretation in Context
Uroflowmetry interpretation for clinicians: read flow curve, Qmax, and voided volume against the bladder diary and PVR, because a low Qmax is ambiguous.
17 min read
Bladder Outlet Obstruction ICD-10: N40.1 vs N32.0 vs N13.9
Bladder outlet obstruction ICD-10 coding: N40.1 for BPH, N32.0 for bladder-neck, N13.9 for unspecified, plus female BOO and post-prostatectomy stacks.
27 min read
Detrusor Overactivity: Diary First, Then Urodynamics
Detrusor overactivity is a UDS finding, not OAB. The bladder diary triages most cases before urodynamics; subtype changes which prescription works.
28 min read
Exporting a Bladder Diary to Epic, Cerner, and Other EMRs
How to send Bladder Diaries results into the patient chart with FHIR R4 Bundle or HL7 C-CDA R2.1, without any patient data leaving the device until you press download.
14 min read
ICD-10 Codes for Urinary Urgency: LUTS by 4Is Bucket
ICD-10 codes for urinary urgency: R39.15 for the symptom, N32.81 for OAB syndrome, N39.41 with leakage. The LUTS code menu organized by IPC 4Is buckets.
24 min read
ICIQ-OAB: Item-by-Item Interpretation for the 4Is Workup
The ICIQ-OAB scores OAB symptom severity 0 to 16. The four items map to four IPC 4Is workup paths. How to read it, score it, and pair it with the diary.
18 min read
Post-Void Residual: The Voiding-Impairment Gate-Check
Post-void residual is the singular gate-check on the Voiding axis: cutoffs, measurement pitfalls, the kegel caution, and the practical urology algorithm.
24 min read
Underactive Bladder: A Diary-First Workup Before Urodynamics
Underactive bladder hides under BPH. The diary plus PVR is what tells you which bucket the patient sits in before urodynamics confirms it. Workup guide.
20 min read
Differential Diagnosis of Polyuria: Diary-First Workup
Differential diagnosis of polyuria, anchored to the IPC 4Is framework: how a 3-day bladder diary triages four patterns before the endocrine workup runs.
18 min read
Nocturnal Polyuria Index (NPi): Calculation and Workup
Calculating the nocturnal polyuria index from a bladder diary: age-stratified thresholds, the 4Is gateway, and the PT-led workup before any drug.
15 min read
Frequency Volume Chart: The ICS-Formal Bladder Diary
A frequency volume chart is the ICS-formal name for the volumetric core of a bladder diary. The chart that produces 24hVV, MVV, AVV, and NPi at the desk.
16 min read
Normal Capacity of the Bladder: Functional vs Anatomical
The 300-500 mL textbook range is anatomical capacity. The number that drives clinical decisions is functional capacity, read off a 3-day bladder diary.
15 min read
The Continence Assessment Tool a Clinician Actually Needs
The continence assessment tool a clinician actually needs: five validated instruments, the 3-day bladder diary, and the 4Is functional diagnosis framework.
21 min read
Bladder Diary App: A Clinician's Eight-Point Checklist
A clinician's eight-point checklist for evaluating a bladder diary app: ICS-grounded requirements and what gets quietly broken when an app misses one.
17 min read
Bladder Diary PDF: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
Free 3-day bladder diary PDF download, plus the clinician's read on format choice, compliance evidence, and what digital tools show paper cannot.
16 min read
Bladder Diary Interpretation: The IPC 4Is Workflow
A 5-step bladder diary interpretation procedure for clinicians: completeness check, four core metrics, IPC 4Is mapping, symptom cross-check, decide.
20 min read
What is a bladder diary?
A bladder diary turns three days of voids, fluids, and leaks into the four numbers that drive a real LUTS diagnosis. The cheapest test in pelvic care.
13 min read
