Acupuncture for Overactive Bladder? Video Lecture | Understanding Accupressure and Different Body Points - Health & Fitness

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get into day's topic which I want to
start with it just kind of get into
question out there but you ever really
skeptical of what your doctor recommends
like do they do you go through the
consultation and at the end they say
something and you just think there's no
way that that's gonna work or there's no
way I'm gonna do that or some 300-pound
doctor looks at you and tells you you
know I think really what you need is to
lose some weight I think that might help
right I mean sometimes recommendations
from us come across just completely
skeptical because of either how they're
presented maybe they're the wrong thing
or maybe the person presenting them just
doesn't look like they fit the right
part so one of the things I want to talk
about today is one of those where I've
had patients be pretty skeptical and
fortunately I've had a lot of people
really happy that they went through it
and I think it works well it's for
overactive bladder and it's called
urgent PC the real name for it is called
PT NS or percutaneous tibial nerve
stimulation and this is really cool
right it is a fusion of some Eastern
medicine in the form of acupuncture plus
some Western medicine and it works right
there are a lot of alternative medicines
out there and we know lots of people
seek that some of those have great
science behind them many of them
unfortunately very little research and
some of them may not be that safe or
healthy but this is one that bridges all
of that and more
and I think it's a great example of how
different types of treatments are
different types of philosophies you can
come together and provide you a good
benefit which is great so again let's
check it let's work on overactive
bladder for a second
it's that unwanted urge to urinate that
comes across that comes across many
times in a day sometimes it goes along
with incontinence sometimes not there
are some behavioral things you can do if
you want to check on those and go over
that again my video early on and all of
my video series was oh no I gotta pee
again check that out it has lots you can
do on different behaviors you can try to
reduce your overactive symptoms and some
medications now if you've been through
that stuff if you've done the
medications or if you don't want to then
keep listening to this what this is is a
way to try and reduce those unwanted
urges maybe reduce the incontinence and
just get you to a better quality of life
right like we may not get rid of the
problem but if it gets a lot better
that's pretty good now what we do
actually is take an acupuncture needle
which you can see is really thin apply
it to a little electrode and then that
generator puts a little electricity
through that and the needle goes behind
your ankle on the inside and where we're
getting close to something called the
tibial nerve the tibial nerve contracts
your calf muscles and what some really
smart scientists found out several
decades ago was that if you stimulate
the tibial nerve or stimulate it with
electricity and contract those calf
muscles that inhibits bladder
contractions and it's called a reflex
mark and it makes sense right if you are
using your calf muscles and you're
running from a predator or you're
running for any reason at all are using
them you usually are not gonna stop to
the oh I should really take a piss right
here right that's not gonna happen so
with the tibial nerve stimulating that
is a reflex arc that inhibits bladder
contractions and overactive bladder are
unwanted excessive bladder contractions
so this really works and what you do is
you end up coming to our office for
about 30 minutes once a week for about
12 weeks and you can sit there and read
or listen to music or do whatever it's
not something that's too bothersome it's
gonna feel like
it's vibrating a little bit and the side
effects are minimal you're not gonna get
infections in the leg there you might
get a little bit of bruising but that's
about it so the main side effect is your
time and then over the number of weeks
we just kind of see if things start to
get a little bit better and if they do
there are ways to do maintenances where
you can kind of come like once a month
or something like that or just you know
whenever your symptoms feel you guys
start coming back and coming back but
you don't have to have anything
implanted in your body you don't have
done have the unwanted side effects that
some medications you don't have to go
through a surgery most insurances do
cover this pretty well and it's a nice
answer for refractive ladder so I think
it's really cool because it offers some
aspects of alternative therapies with
some Western medicine that has some
really good research behind it and it
just does a nice job of taking care of
people with minimal side effects so if
somebody brings it up as an option check
it out if you have questions send me
your questions otherwise take care of
cells and Families and you guys have a
great night we'll see you soon