TENS for Overactive bladder symptoms in females

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  A comparative study to compare the effectiveness of sacral TENS versus posterior tibial nerve TENS on Overactive Bladder symptoms in adult females.

• IRAS ID

  182061

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 8 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The research will involve 30 adult females with overactive bladder symptoms. Current treatment can involve using TENS machines to help manage symptoms. What is unknown at present is whether places the external electrodes on the sacrum is any different to placing them over the posterior tibial nerve. There is some evidence for both but it leads to difficulty when prescribing this treatment as we are unsure where to place the pads. The females will be shown how to use these units and loaned them for 6 weeks at home to use for 15 minutes daily either over the sacrum or lower leg depending on where they have been randomised to, they will also complete the outcome measures at this time. They will return and re-fill the outcome measures to identify any change to symptoms. They will also be sent the outcome measure to complete for 6 weeks after they have finished using the TENS to see if there has been any carry over of results. Results will then compare both groups.

• REC name

  South Central - Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/SC/0398

• Date of REC Opinion

  23 Jun 2015

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion