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The type of treatment provided by the Hollister® evadri Bladder Control System has many supporters in the medical field. Physicians and nurses across the country often recommend the type of treatment provided by the evadri System as an important part of the total management of bladder control problems.
Susan Scanlon, M.D.
Richard C. Smith, M.D., FACOG, FACS
Peter Sand, M.D.
Karen Sasso, MSN, RN, APN, CCCN
Raja Chatterji, M.D., FACOG
Donna Handelsman, R.N., M.S.
Mary Benson, R.N.
Susan Scanlon, M.D., has been in private practice for more than nine years in obstetrics and gynecology, with significant experience in urogynecology. She currently runs two practices: the Comprehensive Women's Center in Wheeling, Ill., and also in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Her mission is to enhance and extend women's lives by providing the highest quality OB/Gyn services in a caring manner. Click here to view Dr. Scanlon's biography.
“For many stress and urge incontinence cases, I offer the evadri System as first-line therapy. I prefer to avoid prescribing medication or surgery at first. The majority of my patients respond to the treatment and are very satisfied with the results.”
— Dr. Susan Scanlon
Richard C. Smith, M.D., FACOG, FACS, has more than 30 years of experience in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Smith has had private practices in Barrington and Crystal Lake, Ill., since 1979. In 1985 he established both an office in Algonquin, Ill., and the Barrington Health Care for Women, which offers both a conservative and operative approach to female incontinence problems. He also regularly teaches at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
“I always tell my patients that if they want to get stronger — lift weights. If they want to have a stronger bladder, they have to tighten up their pelvic muscles. After a few weeks of working with a treatment program like the evadri System, patients are able to get out, use less pads and have more bladder control.”
— Dr. Richard C. Smith
Peter Sand, M.D., is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Northwestern University Medical School and Director of the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Sand is a well-respected national authority on the evaluation and treatment of lower urinary tract problems in women and a recognized expert on pelvic surgery.
“Patients who have tried Kegel exercises on their own presuppose they will not be successful with another modality. They don't seek care assuming doctors only have pills and surgery to offer. They are not aware of the alternative therapies — we’ve certainly seen a lot of people have great success. We see that with pelvic floor stimulation we get a response early, usually within two to four weeks … And we see that people in the 12 week trials have continuous improvement.”
— Dr. Peter Sand
Karen Sasso, MSN, RN, APN, CCCN, is a urogynecology clinical nurse specialist and program manager of the Continence Center at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Illinois.
“I think that biofeedback is a great learning tool for a patient with stress urinary incontinence or urge urinary incontinence. They learn how to do a proper pelvic floor muscle contraction to rehabilitate the pelvic floor to the point of reducing their incontinent episodes and giving them a sense of control over the situation.”
— Karen Sasso
Raja Chatterji, M.D., FACOG, is a Board Certified obstetrician and gynecologist with a special interest in urogynecology based at the Women’s Healthcare Center in Illinois. The center has three locations: Algonquin, Elgin and Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
“We’re teaching natural exercises that strengthen the pelvic muscles. We’ve had patients who’ve had remarkable success and I’ve been very impressed. If it works, then why go under the knife?”
— Dr. Raja Chatterji
Donna Handelsman, R.N., M.S. is a urogynecology and ob/gyn nurse specialist at the Women’s Healthcare Center in Algonquin, Illinois. Handelsman is certified by the Council of Childbirth Education Specialists and is a member of NACOG. She has been administering pelvic flood therapy since 2002.
“Sometimes you have to convince patients not to give up. Some women who have severe stress incontinence may not see any progress until maybe the fifth visit, and then all of the sudden they’ll come in and say, ‘Last night was the first time I didn’t get up to go to the bathroom since 1960.’ Or they cough or sneeze without leaking and exclaim, ‘Wow, it’s working!’”
— Donna Handelsman
Mary Benson, R.N., Crystal Lake, Illinois, has been treating incontinence since 1998. She began utilizing the type of treatment provided by the evadri System in 2001.
“When patients inquire about incontinence, our first-line method of treatment always begins with the type of therapy provided by the evadri System. Drugs are a Band-Aid® — when you stop taking the medication, the symptoms return. If possible, biofeedback is better than surgery because there is no recovery time or downtime from work. The treatment is a great way to spend time with patients and really help them with bladder problems.”
— Mary Benson
