This week we are going to discuss a condition of the lumbar spine, (lower back), which is often confused with another – the sacroiliac joint dysfunction versus sciatic nerve irritability. These two ...

Results of a small trial in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that electrical stimulation of the sacral nerve could be a future treatment option for faecal incontinence. Anal incontinence ...

Sacral nerve stimulation is used to treat the symptoms of an overactive bladder, including urinary urge incontinence and/or urgency frequency in patients who have failed or cannot tolerate ...

Several studies have demonstrated excellent results for sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) in the treatment of incapacitating fecal incontinence. The devices used for SNS are expensive, however, and no ...

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The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the United States is approximately 0.9% of the general population, with ulcerative colitis (UC) affecting 0.4% and Crohn’s disease (CD) affecting ...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StimGuard LLC, a privately-held, pre-commercial medical device company headquartered in South Florida, today announced it received CE Mark approval for the ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...