For the 33 million American adults living with overactive bladder, remedy has mostly meant two things: pills that come with side effects and complications, or urologist visits that drain your wallet and your calendar. As of Jun 2026, there's a third option that asks for neither.
PelviHeal® is the first muscular stimulation device designed for home use for overactive bladder. Translation: a drug-free OAB therapy you can do in 10 minutes a day, from your own home.
If you've cycled through OAB medications that didn't work, or quit them because the side effects felt worse than the urgency, this is the news you've been waiting for. Roughly one in three people on medication falls into that camp. Until now, their next step usually meant more prescriptions or expensive in-clinic procedures.
This isn't a wellness gadget, and the results are hard to ignore:
Users of the device saw an average 58% improvement in OAB symptoms after just 7 days compared to before using it.*
That climbed to 63% after 4 weeks, and 72% by 10 weeks.*
Side effects were mild and short-lived: some tingling at most. No dry mouth, no constipation, no cognitive fog, no urinary retention.
More than 21,000 people across Europe, the U.K., Switzerland and Hong Kong are already using it. American market is simply catching up.
The PelviHeal® uses electrical muscle stimulation, a gentle electrical current aimed at the pelvic floor. In many people with OAB, the pelvic muscles holding the bladder are either too weak or overly tight. The device works to restore pelvic muscle strength for a weak pelvic floor and block hyperactive nerve signals traveling between the bladder and the spinal cord, session by session.
You use the device for about 10 minutes a day. The device is designed for you to manage it on your own, and the device follows safe, preset protocols.
The PelviHeal® is designed for adults 18 and older with mild to moderately severe overactive bladder. It can be used on its own or alongside medication and other remedies, whichever fits your situation.
It's worth being upfront about the limits. It's not a substitute for emergency care. If you're dealing with acute urinary urgency, retention, or pain, this is not the tool for that moment.
The PelviHeal® became available to U.S. market in June 2026, and it's available as an OTC device without a prescription. The company is already exploring future uses including pelvic pain and postpartum prolapse recovery.
Right now, it costs a fraction of what most people spend on ongoing urologist visits or years of refills, and without the dry mouth, constipation, cognitive fog, or urinary retention that push so many people off their medication.
For years, electrical muscle stimulation for bladder control stayed locked inside clinics. Now it can happen at home. It won't be the answer for everyone. But if medication has let you down, you finally have a promising alternative that doesn't come in a bottle.
You can check availability and reserve your device here.
So here's the question: if you could reach for a device from the comfort of your own home that reduces the constant need to run to the bathroom without side effects, would you try it?
*Private consumer survey from Reclaimie.