Text Box: Got to go? Nearly 20 million Americans and growing experience urinary incontinence, urinary urgency-frequency or urinary retention problems. The loss of bladder control disrupts anyone’s lifestyle. Each is a unique condition and warrants varying treatments. Urinary incontinence is when you are not able to hold the flow of urine. Whereas, urinary urgency-frequency is the “got to go frequently” condition where you constantly feel you need to urinate but the bladder is empty. Urinary retention results from muscles unable to contract to properly empty the bladder. The growth of these conditions is confirmed by the growing propensity of pharmaceutical companies to offer possible solutions. For some, dietary changes, adult diapers, pharmaceuticals or exercise may solve the problem. For an increasing number of Americans, however this simply is just not enough. Text Box: Educate: Treating Urinary Problems Text Box: Personal Experiences: Brian Kovach Text Box: As a happy go lucky twenty- something construction worker, Brian Kovach recalled in a recent conversation how an auto accident in 1993 had left him as a C4/C5 quadriplegic. Brian had always worked hard and played hard but it was the latter facet of his lifestyle that led to his traumatic drunk driving incident. Following his accident Brian was taken to Alleghany Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he spent a month in intensive care and step down care. Thereafter he underwent rehabilitation at Hillside Hospital in Warren, Ohio, which location was, fortuitously, close to his home. Shortly after finishing his rehabilitation in 1994 Brian enrolled at Kent State University’s Trumbull branch. His academic work gained him, in the spring of 2000, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Text Box: The Current Text Box:

STIM Newsletter: Inaugural issue

Welcome to the initial issue of the STIM  Newsletter.

This newsletter is designed to fulfill two of our four primary services, to educate and to communicate. Educating persons with impairments, their family and care-givers, healthcare professionals and the general public on various neurotechnology devices will help build awareness.  It will also put information into your hands so you can make better decisions.  Awareness is built through effective communication.  We know from observing user forums, that the sharing of personal experiences from people who use these systems is a

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