An appraisal of maximal faradic stimulation of pelvic muscles in the management of female urinary incontinence.

Measurement of the urethral pressure profile enables a group of women to be defined whose urinary incontinence is due to sphincter weakness. In such cases a significant degree of improvement, both symptomatic and in the profile amplitude, follows treatment by maximal faradic stimulation of the pelvic muscle and perineal muscle exercises.