Trial reportWorld journal of urology2015
Acupuncture for overactive bladder in female adult: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in World journal of urology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupuncture for treating overactive bladder in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Acupuncture for the treatment of overactive bladder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Acupuncture for adults with overactive bladder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Acupuncture in the treatment of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy / tropical spastic Paraparesis.Journal of neurovirology · 2020Trial
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- Piezo2 in sensory neurons contributes to inflammation-induced bladder overactivity and is associated with the effects of electroacupuncture.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Risk of subsequently developing lower urinary tract symptoms in patients with plantar fasciitis: A nationwide, population-based study.Medicine · 2025Observational
- Acupuncture for Women with Overactive Bladder: Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Related Mechanism.International journal of general medicine · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of Electroacupuncture for Management of Young Patients with Overactive Bladder at 1-Year Follow-Up.Medical acupuncture · 2021Article
- Laser Acupuncture Alleviates Symptoms and Improves Quality of Life in Women with Overactive Bladder: A Double-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
- A randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for overactive bladder: a study in Hong Kong population.Chinese medicine · 2020Article
- Effects of electroacupuncture on bladder and bowel function in patients with transverse myelitis: a prospective observational study.Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society · 2018Observational
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- Dobutamine stress-induced ischemic right ventricular dysfunction in patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease.Electronic physician · 2018Article
- Report and Research Agenda of the American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Bedside-to-Bench Conference on Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Translational Research Agenda for a Complex Geriatric Syndrome.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Review
- A comparative study of electroacupuncture at Zhongliao (BL33) and other acupoints for overactive bladder symptoms.Frontiers of medicine · 2017Article
- Impact of ao-dake-humi, Japanese traditional bamboo foot stimulator, on lower urinary tract symptoms, constipation and hypersensitivity to cold: a single-arm prospective pilot study.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2016Article
- The role of acupuncture in managing overactive bladder; a review of the literature.International urogynecology journal · 2016Review
- Clinical Experiences of Korean Medicine Treatment against Urinary Bladder Cancer in General Practice.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating female adult with overactive bladder. MATERIALS AND
methodsAfter we excluded other causes for storage symptoms, a total of 240 consecutive female patients with overactive bladder were enrolled and completed all aspects of this prospective randomized controlled trial, of which 118 cases were randomly assigned to receive a weekly acupuncture treatment (intervention group), while the other 122 cases were given a pharmacological treatment of oral tolterodine tartrate 2 mg twice daily (control group) for 4 weeks. Data on urgency, incontinence, micturition frequency, nocturia episodes and voided volume were collected and statistically analyzed before and after 4 weekly acupuncture treatments or 4 weeks' pharmacological treatment using a 3-day micturition diary.
resultsThe two groups of female patients with overactive bladder were given treatment with weekly acupuncture (n = 118), oral tolterodine tartrate (n = 122) for 4 weeks respectively. At weeks 4, subjects in both intervention and control groups had significant decreases in number of urinary urgency episodes, incontinence episodes, daytime frequency, nocturia episodes and increase in volume voided per micturition without a significant difference in the changes of overactive bladder symptoms between the groups. There were no serious adverse events during the study.
conclusionsThis randomized controlled trial demonstrates that acupuncture is safe with significant improvements in patient assessment of overactive bladder symptoms and may be considered a clinically alternative treatment for overactive bladder in female adult.
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