Overview

Treatment, Parallel Assignment, Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Efficacy Study

Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2016-04-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether electroacupuncture is effective in the treatment of overactive bladder.
Phase:
N/A
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Collaborators:
Beijing Hospital
Capital Medical University
Treatments:
Solifenacin Succinate
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

1. Clinical diagnosis of overactive bladder.

2. Frequent micturition.(average urinary frequency of ≥8 voids per day)

3. No relevant drug use within 2 weeks and no acupuncture treatment within 1 month before
the study; not in other clinical trials.

4. Self-reported bladder symptoms ≥3 months

5. Capable of giving informed consent .

6. Capable and willing to follow all study-related procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

- Frequent micturition and urinary urgency are secondary to other diseases.

- Clinical diagnosis of simple stress urinary incontinence.

- Patients with urinary track infection and vagenal infection.

- Patients with implantable pelvic stimulator.

- Current use of electric therapy on pelvic area/back/legs.

- Current use of clostridium botulinum therapy on vesical or pelvic muscles.

- participation in any clinical inverstigation involving or impacting
gynecological/urinary/renal function.

- Suffering from severe cardiac/hepatic/renal injury or cognitive disorder/aphasia/
dysphrenia/malnutrition, or in poor perform status and unable to cooperate.

- Patients in gestation and in lactation period.

- Patients in coagulation disorders or taking anticoagulation drugs.

- People with cardiac pacemaker or metal allergy.

- Patients having got eletroacupunture therapy or solifenacin in 4 weeks before the
study.

- Patients are afraid of needles.