Electronic Control of Incontinence: A Critical Review of the Present Situation

SUMMARY 1. The results obtained in a series of 64 patients with incontinence treated by electronic methods are discussed. 2. It is suggested that present methods of predicting success are unsatisfactory, and that treatment might equally satisfactorily be undertaken in a random manner. 3. Electronic treatment is most likely to succeed in those cases where operation is indicated, and is likely to fail in those cases where surgery is also likely to fail. 4. Electronic treatment may provide a useful method of short term control of incontinence, but in the long term it is unlikely to replace conventional methods of treatment.