Transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation to treat urgency urinary incontinence in older women: 12-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) is highly prevalent in elderly individuals and has a great impact on quality of life. Transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) can be an effective treatment option for UUI in older women.

Methods: This is a single-center randomized clinical trial with a 12-month follow-up involving 106 women > 60 years of age.

Systematic Review of Oral Therapy for the Treatment of Symptoms of Bladder Pain Syndrome: The Brazilian Guidelines.

Interstitial cystitis (IC), including bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is a chronic and debilitating disease that mainly affects women. It is characterized by pelvic pain associated with urinary urgency, frequency, nocturia and negative urine culture, with normal cytology. In 2009, the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology (SUFU) defined the term IC/BPS as "an unpleasant sensation (pain, pressure, and discomfort) perceived to be related to the urinary bladder, associated with lower urinary tract symptoms for more than 6 weeks duration, in the absence of infection or other identifiable causes.

Electrical stimulation for urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review.

Background: Electrical stimulation is commonly recommended to treat urinary incontinence in women. It includes several techniques that can be used to improve stress, urge, and mixed symptoms. However, the magnitude of the alleged benefits is not completely established.

Randomized trial of transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation to treat urge urinary incontinence in older women.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) to treat urge urinary incontinence (UUI) in older women.

Material And Methods: The study design was a randomized clinical trial conducted on 51 elderly women (>60 years) with UUI. All were treated with 12 weeks of bladder retraining and pelvic floor muscle exercises, and 25 were randomly selected to receive TTNS in addition to the standard therapy.