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Conservative therapy for overactive bladder: Pelvic floor exercises

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Overactive bladder affects the lives of millions of people. Anticholinergic medications are traditionally used to treat this condition, but some patients find these agents difficult to tolerate and ineffective. Conservative treatment with pelvic floor exercises, with or without biofeedback, electric stimulation, and behavioral modification, are excellent modalities that can be effective in the motivated patient. This review describes the available literature supporting the efficacy of pelvic floor exercises in the treatment of overactive bladder and guidelines for patient selection.

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Kwon, C., Sand, P.K. Conservative therapy for overactive bladder: Pelvic floor exercises. Curr Urol Rep 3, 458–462 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11934-002-0097-1

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