Posterior Sacral Rhizotomy and Intradural Anterior Sacral Root Stimulation for Treatment of the Spastic Bladder in Spinal Cord Injured Patients

Abstract

Intradural sacral posterior rhizotomy combined with intradural sacral anterior root stimulation is a valuable method to treat the hyperreflexic bladder with incontinence resistant to conservative therapy in spinal cord injured patients. Autonomic hyperreflexia was decreased but not suppressed by posterior sacral rhizotomy.