Take the First Step to Find Long-Lasting Relief for your Bowel Incontinence Symptoms
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What is Axonics® Therapy?
Axonics Therapy is an effective solution for treating symptoms of bowel (fecal) incontinence, overactive bladder including urinary urgency incontinence, and urinary retention.2.
What Is Bowel Incontinence?
Bowel incontinence, or accidental bowel leakage, is a condition where people get sudden urges to pass stool and experience leakage of stool before they make it to the restroom.
Bowel Incontinence Symptoms
You may be suffering from bowel incontinence if:
Fecal Urgency
Urgency Fecal Incontinence
Passive Bowel Incontinence
Did you know that patients can suffer from dual incontinence? Dual incontinence is when a patient is experiencing both bladder and bowel control symptoms.
Your journey to find the treatment solution that works for you
- Discuss your symptoms
- Start a baseline bowel diary
- Undergo recommended diagnostic tests
- Discuss treatment options
- Diet changes
- Sphincter and pelvic floor exercises
- Over-the-counter antidiarrheal medications
- Pessary
- Minimally Invasive
– Sacral Neuromodulation - Invasive
– Surgical Sphincter Repair
Bowel Incontinence Patient Care Pathway
Your doctor and his or her clinical team will follow a patient care pathway, which is a roadmap of the different treatment options available to you. The pathway starts with conservative treatments and then moves on to the advanced therapies.
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Initial
Treatment
Follow Up With
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Advanced
Therapies
How does Axonics Therapy work?
Axonics Therapy provides gentle stimulation to the nerves that control the bladder and bowel, which can restore normal control and result in symptom improvement.
The Evaluation Step: To see if Axonics Therapy is right for you, you will undergo a short period of therapy using a temporary system. The evaluation period allows you to experience the level of symptom relief the therapy may provide before you commit to long-term therapy.
After a successful trial, you and your physician will decide next steps. Many people choose to proceed with the long-term solution which includes a small, discrete implant that’s placed beneath the skin in the upper part of your buttock.
Clinically Proven. Patient Approved.
Backed by clinical studies, Axonics Therapy is clinically proven to regain bowel and bladder control and deliver clinically meaningful improvement in quality of life.
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Important Safety Information:
Indications: Axonics SNM Therapy for urinary control is indicated for the treatment of urinary retention and the symptoms of overactive bladder, including urinary urge incontinence and significant symptoms of urgency-frequency alone or in combination, in patients who have failed or could not tolerate more conservative treatments. Axonics SNM Therapy for bowel control is indicated for the treatment of chronic fecal incontinence in patients who have failed or are not candidates for more conservative treatments.
Contraindications: Axonics SNM Therapy is contraindicated for patients who have not demonstrated an appropriate response to test stimulation or patients who are unable to operate the Axonics SNM Systems.
Warnings: Implantation and use of the Axonics Systems incur risks beyond those normally associated with surgery, some of which may necessitate surgical intervention. These risks include, but are not limited to adverse change in voiding function (bowel and/or bladder), infection, pain or irritation at the implant site, lead or device migration, electrical shock, change in sensation or magnitude of stimulation which has been described as uncomfortable (jolting or shocking) by some patients, and heating or burns at the device site.
Results and experiences may vary and are unique to each patient. No promise or guarantee is made about specific results or experiences. Talk to your doctor to see if Axonics Therapy is right for you and to discuss the potential risks and benefits.
For more information about safety and potential risks, go to www.axonics.com/isi.
Precautions: The safety and effectiveness of Axonics Therapy has not been established for use in women who are pregnant or in delivery; for pediatric patients (under the age of 18 years for fecal incontinence and under the age of 16 years for overactive bladder and urinary retention); for patients with neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or diabetes, or for bilateral stimulation.
Caution: U.S. federal law restricts this device to sale and use by, or on the order of, a physician.
1. Ditah I, Devaki P, Luma HN, et al. Prevalence, trends, and risk factors for fecal incontinence in United States adults, 2005-2010. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014;12(4):636-43.e432. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2013.07.020
2. Pezzella A, McCrery R, Lane F, et al. Twoâ€year outcomes of the ARTISAN†SNM study for the treatment of urinary urgency incontinence using the Axonics rechargeable sacral neuromodulation system. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 2021;1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.24615
3. Jottard K., Van den Broeck S., Komen N., Bruyninx L., De Wachter S. 2021. Treatment of Fecal Incontinence With a Rechargeable Sacral Neuromodulation System: Efficacy, Clinical Outcome, and Ease of Use—Six-Month Follow- Up. Neuromodulation 2021; 24: 1284–1288
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