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Acupuncture for bladder weakness
Feeling fully in control again Acupuncture for bladder weakness can be a big help for improving bladder strength and resilience. Some degree of bladder weakness is surprisingly common. You may urinate frequently, you may have feelings of urgency or weakness, or you may experience a little leak here and there.
Many people regularly wake to pee in the night time, but a healthy strong bladder should be able to make it through the night quite happily. Having your sleep interrupted in this way is of course tiring in itself, and may be gradually depleting your energy levels.
Or it may be that your bladder does not feel as strong as it might with running or other physical activities, when sneezing, coughing or laughing, or if you have to hold on for a while and there isn't a loo nearby. And many people find their bladders more pressing at times of stress such as pressurised work deadlines or other demanding situations. For some people their bladder had never felt fully robust, and it may be worsening with age. For others it may have weakened following trauma, surgery, childbirth, or repeated bladder and/or kidney infections.
Acupuncture doesn't use a 'one size fits all' approach, and Jessica will discuss your wider health with you in some detail to reach a fully individualised diagnosis and treatment plan.
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Detailed references (1) http://www.acupuncture-schools.us/national-institute-health-nih-acupuncture.cfm, referring to World Health Organisation (2002). Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trial, see http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=93&codcch=196 (2) Rampes (2001). The safety of acupuncture. British Medical Journal 2001;323(7311):467 (1 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7311.467, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/323/7311/467 (3) From the 'About Us' area of the Clinical Evidence BMJ website, page titled 'How much do we know', http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp. Extract at Oct 2009: "So what can Clinical Evidence tell us about the state of our current knowledge? What proportion of commonly used treatments are supported by good evidence, what proportion should not be used or used only with caution, and how big are the gaps in our knowledge? Of around 2500 treatments covered 13% are rated as beneficial, 23% likely to be beneficial, 8% as trade off between benefits and harms, 6% unlikely to be beneficial, 4% likely to be ineffective or harmful, and 46%, the largest proportion, as unknown effectiveness" © Jessica Kennedy 2008-09, all rights reserved |