SCI Science Perspectives

Author: American Spinal Injury Association

The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) brings you SCI Science Perspectives. The podcast is built around two-part dialogues with spinal cord injury (SCI) professionals regarding their emerging scientific work spanning the full spectrum of SCI research, from discovery to clinical application. The SCI Science Perspectives podcast disseminates the latest-and-greatest scientific work in the SCI field via a conversation with researchers that approaches their work from two perspectives: the scholarly perspective and the community perspective. The process begins with ASIAs Committees informing the podcast about new and influential scientific papers relevant to the committees interests. Then the podcast host(s) then interview the author(s) of the papers, approaching their project from each perspective. Finally, the conversation from each perspective is published as its own episode type: "Scholarly" and "Community" episodes. Keep an eye out too for "Admin" episodes too, communicating administrative information relevant to ASIA members and stakeholders.
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Community EP056 - Trading Stimulation for Overactive Bladder Medications with Dr. Argy Stampas
Episode 56
Friday, 13 February, 2026

Join us in this episode for a conversation with Argyrios “Argy” Stampas, MD, physiatrist, Vice Chair of Research and Innovation and Full Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UTHealth Houston’s McGovern Medical School, and Director of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Research at TIRR Memorial Hermann. In this conversation we discuss the paper titled “Reduction of Overactive Bladder Medications in Spinal Cord Injury with Self-Administered Neuromodulation: A randomized Trial" published in The Journal of Urology. In this paper Dr. Stampas discusses self-administered tibial nerve stimulation (TNS) for neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury (SCI). The discussion highlights how noninvasive neuromodulation can reduce overactive bladder medication use, explores the underlying mechanisms, and considers what these findings mean for daily life and future SCI bladder management. We invite you to listen in as Dr. Stampas describes this device with the potential to reduce drug dependence for overactive bladder, and trust you will enjoy this episode.