IUGA Meeting 2023 - Best Overall Abstract Presentation

Dr. Jan Deprest, the Chair of the Scientific Committee, presented the Best Overall Abstract award to Dr. Milena Weinstein, who then presented her work. Dr. Weinstein and her team performed a randomized controlled trial comparing home pelvic floor muscle training with Voices for PFD regimen versus motion-based digital therapeutic guided PFMT for 8 weeks to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI). More than 300 women were randomized in the study. Dr. Weinstein presented the long-term follow-up outcomes. The change in the UDI-6 score remained significantly more improved in the device group versus the control at 18 and 24-month follow-up. The PGI-I outcomes also remained significantly "much better" and "very much better" in the device group at long-term follow-up. It is also noted that both groups noted improvement in their UDI-6 from baseline. She concludes that the motion-based device shows "durable and significantly greater improvement" in stress-predominant urinary incontinence and should be considered first-line therapy for SUI.