| Painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC) as defined by the International Continence Society is 'the complaint of suprapubic pain related to bladder filling, accompanied by other symptoms such as increased daytime and night-time frequency, in the absence of proven urinary infection or other obvious pathology' (Abrams, 2002). There is an extreme variation in the prevalence reports of PBS/IC in the United States and around the world. A 1997 report stated that 0.5% of the US population or more than 1 million people report having a diagnosis of interstitial cystitis (Jones and Nyberg, 1997). A prevalence rate of 8 - 16 per 100,000 females in the Netherlands has also been reported. In Japan the prevalence is 4.5 per 100,000 (Ito, 2000). Read about electrical stimulation treatment.
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