More about Dr Knapp (Enuresis specialist)

Enuresis alarms, bedwetting and incontinence
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DR Martin Knapp provides specialist medical advice to Malem Medstat and to those calling 1800 803 756 or making inquiries by fax, mail or email to the Enuresis Advisory Service.

DR Martin Knapp holds the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP) and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Australia (FRACP). He has a doctorate in medicine (MD), awarded for research on why some individuals pass most urine at night and less in the daytime.

He has been on the faculty of medical schools in the UK, in USA and in Australia, the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania. He was in a specialist medical practice in Australia for 12 years and continues to practice part-time.

DR Martin Knapp started the Malem Enuresis Advisory service ten years ago. He observed there were many health care professionals, including doctors, pharmacists and nurses, who were providing advice that was not "best practice" and did not take into account new methods based on quality research. Initially the advisory service was based on his specialist medical practice as a physician (internist) and this developed into the Enuresis Advisory Service - supplying advice by telephone and on the Internet in collaboration with Malem Medstat.

He developed his interest in helping adolescents with bedwetting (enuresis) within his specialist medical practice after appointment as a renal (kidney) physician in 1970. He has been involved in developing better treatments for those with bedwetting (enuresis) for thirty years.

DR Knapp initiated research - resulting in a collaboration with DR Helal Malem who had developed the Malem alarm – the first body worn enuresis alarm. The results of their joint research , carried out twenty years ago, was published in the British Medical Journal in 1982. The results of that research have been confirmed by several independent research studies, some of which are included in the Cochrane database of evidence-based medical practice. DR Malem has continued the development of his Malem enuresis alarms over the last 20 years.

DR Knapp has written many articles for doctors and others, describing best practice for the management of bedwetting (enuresis). Recent articles have an emphasis on how to manage children, adolescents and adults who have not responded to standard strategies. He presented a paper on this topic at the year 2000 meeting of the Continence Foundation of Australia in Hobart, Tasmania. His current research interest is in the potential use of the managements developed for children with enuresis to improve continence in adults, especially older persons with nighttime incontinence.

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