The Neurourology Journey: From Pads to Jack Lapides and Intermittent Catheterization to Multidisciplinary Management

This issue of Urologic Clinics of North America, edited by John T. Stoffel, represents the culmination of centuries of study of voiding dysfunction —its causes and treatments. Descriptions of urinary incontinence from spinal cord injury can be found as early as the second millennium bc in Egyptian manuscripts.1,2 Claudius Galen (129–201 ad) is credited as being the first to perform physiologic experiments on the lower-urinary tract, and he concluded that micturition is achieved by contraction of the abdominal muscles.
Source: Urologic Clinics of North America - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research