Efficacy and safety of acupuncture monotherapy or combined with pelvic floor muscle training for female stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is involuntary urine leakage during effort. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is a common physical therapy for SUI, but has low adherence and its long-term effectiveness is uncertain. Drug therapy has side-effect problems and surgery has risks. Acupuncture's role in improving SUI is also unclear based on previous studies.

Objectives

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of acupuncture individually or combined with PFMT in improving symptoms and women's health-related quality of life of SUI.

Design

A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted.

Patients

Women with stress urinary incontinence were treated with electroacupuncture (EA) individually or acupuncture combined wit

SUBMITTER: Jiang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11771138 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature