Patent ID: 8602987
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: A61B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of evaluating a patient for stress urinary incontinence, comprising: inducing an involuntary reflex cough event within the patient that activates the nucleus ambiguous and medial motor cell column of the patient and stimulates involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles in the pelvis of the patient; obtaining an electromyogram (EMG) from the involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles while inducing the involuntary reflex cough event and determining its duration; identifying any urine leakage time that occurs during the involuntary reflex cough event and correlating within a processor the urine leakage time with the EMG data received from the involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles and duration of the cough event to determine stress urinary incontinence.