Biofeedback Method in Treatment of Bedwetting

Bedwetting is a common problem among children and also rarely in some adults too. Normally, the problem of bedwetting is not required any treatments especially in children. The bedwetting problem gives lots of pressure and nervousness among children and also frustration in parents.

An average of 15% of bedwetting children still wet their bed at age 5. Each year an average of 15% of children are cured by their own from the bedwetting problem. Even though, 1 to 2 percent children may experience bedwetting after attaining the age of 15.

Biofeedback is an educative approach to improve the brain’s capability to make some brainwaves related to bladder capacity or strengthen the muscles of bladder. It is like an exercise to the brain on the same way exercise strengthens the muscles.

Being ruled out the physical problem which may relate to bedwetting problem, the method of biofeedback treatment is more suitable to the affected children. The treatment of enuresis by using biofeedback techniques is new, inventive, successful and non-persistent. In this method, the child’s skin is placed with stickers and there is no need for tubes or needles. A computer program will instruct the child, in its 30 to 40 minutes sessions, that how to recognize the muscles which are used for urination. They will see a reaction on the monitor and listen to a clicking sound where they are working out the right muscles. We can see the treatment of bedwetting with biofeedback makes some improvement in all the patients. This technique is much useful for bedwetting patients those who don’t have accidents but have persistent infections in urinary tracts.

Results of the biofeedback treatment show that there is an improvement in the bladder capacity after the treatment. Most of the children cured or stopped bedwetting at the end of the primary treatment. It is found that even in non-responders for the enuresis biofeedback treatment also gain a lot of control over bladder capacity or they got an increased bladder capacity. It is learned that biofeedback treatment can successfully cure the enuresis or bedwetting.

Biofeedback can be successfully exercised to treat the children with the problem of bedwetting or accidental wetting. This kind of treatment is a permanent solution for children affected with small bladder capacity. Normalization of the capacity of bladder and constant growth of bladder for keeping the normal capacity would appear to be vital to the long-lasting decrease of bedwetting in this bedwetting population. The reports received from clinician state that more than 80 percent of children treated by biofeedback methods have achieved remarkable improvements.

The biofeedback program is regarded to shaping your brain to work better for you, by doing so certain things which are difficult for you will work better.