Treatment, Parallel Assignment, Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Efficacy Study
Overactive Bladder
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Overactive Bladder
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of overactive bladder.
- Frequent micturition.(average urinary frequency of ≥8 voids per day)
- No relevant drug use within 2 weeks and no acupuncture treatment within 1 month before the study; not in other clinical trials.
- Self-reported bladder symptoms ≥3 months
- Capable of giving informed consent .
- 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.
Sites / Locations
- Guang'an Men Hospotal Affiliated to China Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
Active Comparator
Electroacupuncture group
Placebo group
Solifenacin Succinate group
Needle on bilateral BL33 acupoint 50-60mm with a 60°angle. A feeling of soreness and distension will be felt when needling into the 3rd posterior sacral foramina(S3). Needle with 75mm long needle. An electric stimulator is put on. SDZ-V electric stimulator (produced by Suzhou Medical Instrument Co.Ltd). continuous wave(CW), 10Hz. Stop turning up the current intensity when patients could not stand. 3 times a week. Once every other day. The treatment period lasts eight weeks. totally 24 times.30min/time.
with the patient in the prone position. The acupoint routine disinfection of skin, and then the fixed pad is adhered on the acupoint. The 1.5 inches blunt tip needle pierce through the fixed pad, then it reaches the surface of the skin, uniform lifting thrusting and twirling all 3 times but do not pierce the skin. Then connect the electric acupuncture apparatus with special power supply wire electrode (special power line as the middle wire cut, looks as normal; that electroacupuncture instrument display connected to the state, but the actual without electricity), in the bilateral Zhongliao points, Hui Yang points on the needle handle; the period of treatment and the other manipulation of the placebo group are same as the deep needling acupoint group.
Solifenacin Succinate Tablets (made by the Anse Tailai Pharmaceutical (China) R & D limited company) 5mg, 1 tablets each time, 1 times / day, oral administration of 30min before meal, even for 8 weeks.