PURPOSE To compare the clinical efficacy of anticholinergics for managing diabetes mellitus-associated overactive bladder (DM OAB) versus idiopathic overactive bladder (OAB) in Korean women. METHODS We conducted a multicenter, prospective, parallel-group, open-label, 12-week study. Women (20-65 years old) with OAB symptoms for over 3 months were assigned to the DM OAB and idiopathic OAB group...

Craving and emotion-driven impulsivity dimensions (positive negative urgency) have been suggested as factors involved in the progression of different potentially problematic behaviors. However, their role severity video gaming-related problems remains unclear. This study aims to assess differential capacity positive urgency predict craving number internet gaming disorder (IGD) symptoms endorsed...

OBJECTIVES Patients with overactive bladder (OAB) often have trouble perceiving urgency because of difficulties in distinguishing between urgency and desire to void. Empirical antimuscarinic treatment of patients with frequency only may be reasonable if conservative management has failed. We compared the efficacy of solifenacin in patients with frequency with or without urgency. MATERIALS AND...

When designed correctly, non-verbal auditory alarms can convey different levels of urgency to the aircrew, and thereby permit the operator to establish the appropriate level of priority to address the alarmed condition. The conveyed level of urgency of five non-verbal auditory alarms presently used in the Canadian Forces CH-146 Griffon helicopter was investigated. Pilots of the CH-146 Griffon h...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and side effects of Oxybutinin in comparison to tolterodine in treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) with detrussor overactivity (DOA) in Iranian women. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred Iranian old women with clinical symptoms of OAB who show IDO in the filling cystometry participated in this randomized double-blinded parallel-group by using two kinds of th...

Myofascial trigger points (MTPs) have been described as focal areas of tenderness within a muscle belly and have been identified as sources of pain. Soft-tissue manual therapy (MTP release) can be used to manage trigger point pain. Interstitial cystitis and painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS) are characterized by symptoms of pelvic pain, frequency, urgency and nocturia, but the definitions and di...