Study design: Investigation of five patients receiving an implant, using laboratory cystometry and self-catheterisation at home. Objectives: To use the established Finetech-Brindley sacral root ...

Previous studies have shown that, anode block electrical stimulation of the sacral nerve root can produce physiological urination and reconstruct urinary bladder function in rabbits. However, whether ...

A colorectal nurse has trained to conduct sacral nerve stimulation surgery for patients with faecal incontinence. This initiative won the Continence Promotion and Care category in the 2018 Nursing ...

Sacral fractures occur in approximately 45% of pelvic fractures. An associated neurologic injury of the lumbosacral plexus may occur in 25% of sacral fractures. 1 Sacral fractures typically result ...

Nat Clin Pract Urol. 2005;2(7):310-311. The InterStim® device has greatly increased the number of candidates for surgical therapy. This therapy involves an initial percutaneous nerve evaluation to ...

It's a problem nobody wants to talk about, suffering in silence and embarrassment. Of the 25 million Americans living with incontinence, 80% are women. But a pacemaker for the bladder may be the ...

Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is a therapeutic procedure that could be used to help women with sexual dysfunction. However, the benefits of this method in this indication should still be reviewed in ...

Tarlov cysts are formed within the nerve root sheath at the posterior root of a spinal nerve. This disease is more common in women than in men. These perineural/perineurial cysts appear as ballooned ...