Urinary incontinence is a significant impairment of the quality of life.
Many patients are treated insufficiently or even suffer from complications of incontinence surgery. Psychosomatic primary care serves to improve the diagnostic work-up and helps to select the appropriate therapeutic option. It also optimizes the treatment outcome by supplementing the somatically oriented urological therapy with the psychosomatically aligned extended medical dialogue and body-oriented methods. Psychosomatic primary care is based on the biopsychosocial model and uses theoretical knowledge and practical techniques that can be learnt under professional guidance.
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Hohenfellner U. Are you the author?
Praxis für Urologie, Ambulantes Urologisches Rehabilitationszentrum für Urologie und Gynäkologie Heidelberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
Reference: Urologe A. 2014 Dec 10. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1007/s00120-014-3696-9
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25488343
Article in German.