Contribution of behavioral and cognitive therapy to managing overactive bladder syndrome in women in the absence of contributive urodynamic diagnosis.
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a syndrome characterized by symptoms of urgency with or without incontinence, frequency, and nocturia. Pathophysiology of OAB is incompletely characterized. Therefore, there is great variability surrounding OAB evaluation. In some cases, urodynamics is normal and the challenge is to propose the least invasive treatment. Behavioral therapies have been used for decades as they are conservative, inexpensive, and do not induce side effect. Our purpose was to describe which usual techniques of pelvic floor rehabilitation in association with behavioral and cognitive therapy could be proposed to manage OAB syndrome in the absence of urodynamic diagnosis and when no targeting drug treatment could be proposed.
Service de Rééducation, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France.
Brigitte G
BG
Marti
Françoise A
FA
Valentini
Gilberte
G
Robain
D001945:Breathing Exercises; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017773:Pelvic Floor; D053201:Urinary Bladder, Overactive / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014563:Urodynamics