Endometriosis is a reproductive condition that occurs when tissue similar to your uterine lining grows outside the uterus, ...

Sacral nerve stimulation, sometimes called sacral neuromodulation, is used to help patients desperate to control their bowels or bladder, when other treatment options have failed. During the ...

The technical advances of sacral nerve stimulation testing phase, namely the use of a tined lead and two phase testing, have improved the results during the last decade. [4] However, the complex ...

Using implanted devices to stimulate the sacral nerves, essential for controlling bowel and bladder function, is known as sacral nerve stimulation.

Nerves that serve the same part of the body merge into one large nerve or group of nerves via a plexus. The sacral plexus provides motor and sensory nerves for the pelvis, buttocks, genitals ...

Subhas thought Sweum could benefit from sacral neuromodulation, a minimally-invasive, reversible therapy that uses electrical impulses to stimulate the nerves just above the tailbone and ...

In Dr. Laurberg's study, 45 patients with fecal incontinence had bilateral testing of sacral nerves 2, 3 and 4 under general anesthesia. In 43 patients with a perineal and perianal muscular ...

Sacral nerve stimulation for idiopathic chronic non‑obstructive urinary retention involves applying an electric current to one of the sacral nerves by an electrode placed through the corresponding ...

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The type of response depends on the peripheral segmental representation of the cerebrospinal nerves in the field of trauma — whether cervical, thoracic, lumbar or sacral.