Injection of thigh muscles. Muscle cells that are taken from the thighs of the patients are useful in reducing the stress against incontinence and helps in controlling overactive bladders.

It is not a joke but actually, because of uncontrollable stress incontinence, even coughing or laughing can make the overactive bladder to cause urine leakage spontaneously. Many of the patients get some behavioral therapy, drug treatment and some psychological exercises but still they are not able to control their urge for urine expulsion spontaneously.

But as per the new studies, by taking the upper thigh muscles cells of the patient and then injecting these muscles into sphincter muscles can help in controlling flow of urine. The idea is stimulating growth of some sphincter muscles through growth pulses that are sent by these injected muscle cells.

It could work as per the clinical trials that were conducted under the sponsorship of Cook Myosite, who is the medical subsidiary who has developed this treatment method. The researcher from Toronto University, Mr. K. Carr, MD along with his research crew members conducted the clinical trials with twenty nine women who had 1 or 2 thigh muscle cell injections at different dosages.

Effect of Women with Urinary Continence

All the women suffered from stress urinary problems which were not at all cured over 1 year of normal therapies and treatment. The urinary leaks got decreased after both the injections. Carr stated at the annual meet conducted this week by the Urological Association of America that the urinary incontinence was decreased after injection of thigh muscles to the sphincter muscles of the patient that help in controlling involuntary urinary expulsion.

Of the seventeen patients who underwent the clinical trials, who were evaluated twelve months after the injection of the thigh muscle cells, thirteen of them were over 3-4 months faced fewer urine leeks and reduced urgency for urination.

Adverse Effects

Also, one particular woman suffered still worse urinary incontinence when compared to what she initially had before this muscle cell treatment. While no patient faced any bad or negative side effects after the treatments, they had some bruises and pain in thigh region from which the muscles were taken and this made the treatment to be rated as serious. Also, there was mild urinary retention after the treatment and the patients had severe pain in thigh region.

In spite of these problems, eight six percent of the patients opted to having the 2nd muscle cell injection after 3 months from the first injection. The spokesman of Urological association, Anthony Atala, MD who is the chairman of University of Wake Forest and the leaded of the tissue regeneration society has reported that thigh muscle-cell treatment for urinary incontinence has been proved to be effective and safe method. It is also crucial to consider the side effects caused by this treatment and in could increase symptoms for patients for whom other treatment methods have failed as per Atala’s report in the new release.