Trial reportClinical interventions in aging2014
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in the treatment of patients with poststroke urinary incontinence.
Trial report in Clinical interventions in aging, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02271607 (A Pilot Study About The Effects of Indirect-Moxibustion on Bladder- Functional Improvement and Symptoms Management in Patients With Overactive Bladder), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Pilot Study About The Effects of Indirect-Moxibustion on Bladder- Functional Improvement and Symptoms Management in Patients With Overactive Bladder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy differences between SNM and various peripheral nerve electrical stimulation modalities for NLUTD: a Bayesian network meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of pelvic floor muscle training on urinary incontinence in patients with stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Irish journal of medical science · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions for treating urinary incontinence after stroke in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- A randomized controlled trial of low-frequency repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with poststroke neurogenic bladder.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Systematic voiding programme in adults with urinary incontinence following acute stroke: the ICONS-II RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2022Trial
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- The effect of pelvic floor muscle training and intravaginal electrical stimulation on urinary incontinence in women with incomplete spinal cord injury: an investigator-blinded parallel randomized clinical trial.International urogynecology journal · 2018Trial
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- Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury: Case Series.Clinical medicine & research · 2025Article
- Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) Alleviates Brain Ischemic Injury by Regulating Neuronal Oxidative Stress, Pyroptosis, and Mitophagy.Mediators of inflammation · 2023Article
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- Effects of nonsurgical, minimally or noninvasive therapies for urinary incontinence due to neurogenic bladder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2022Article
- Electrical stimulation in the treatment of bladder dysfunction: technology update.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019Article
- Age-Related Changes in Neuromodulatory Control of Bladder Micturition Contractions Originating in the Skin.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Management of Acute Stroke in the Older Person.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Clinical utility of neurostimulation devices in the treatment of overactive bladder: current perspectives.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Review
- Stimulus frequency-dependent inhibition of micturition contractions of the urinary bladder by electrical stimulation of afferent Aβ, Aδ, and C fibers in cutaneous branches of the pudendal nerve.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2016Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the therapeutic effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on poststroke urinary incontinence (UI). PATIENTS AND
methodsSixty-one patients with poststroke UI were enrolled at the Neurology Department in the Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital of Tongji University between January 2010-January 2011 and were divided into treatment and control groups (n=32 and n=29, respectively). TENS was applied to the treatment group, while the control group received basic therapy. The therapeutic group completed the whole set of TENS therapy with a treatment frequency of 30 minutes once a day for 60 days. The positive electrode was placed on the second lumbar spinous process, and the negative electrodes were inside the middle and lower third of the junction between the posterior superior iliac spine and ischia node. The overactive bladder symptom score, Barthel Index, and urodynamics examination were estimated before and after therapy in both groups.
resultsThe daily micturition, nocturia, urgent urination, and urge UI in the treatment group significantly improved compared to the control group (P<0.05). The patients in the treatment group were superior in the self-care ability of daily living and also had an advantage over the indexes on maximum cystometry volume, flow rate, and the pressure of detrusor in the end of the filling phase.
conclusionTENS improved incontinence symptoms, enhanced the quality of life, and decreased adverse effects; hence, it is recommended in treating poststroke UI.
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