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These ideas need to be challenged.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>To identify the neural pathway of the bellows response upon sacral spinal nerve stimulation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title><jats:p>Single tertiary center, prospective study (December 2017\u2010June 2019) including 29 patients with overactive bladder refractory to first\u2010line treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Intervention<\/jats:title><jats:p>Recording of the pelvic floor muscle response (PFMR) using a camcorder and electromyography (EMG) (intravaginal probe and concentric needles) upon increasing stimulation during lead or implantable pulse generator placement.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Outcome Measurements and Statistical Analysis<\/jats:title><jats:p>The lowest stimulation intensity needed to elicit a visual PFMR and electrical PFMR was determined. Electrical PFMRs were subdivided according to their latency.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Outcome: the association between visual and electrical PFMRs. Statistical analyses were performed using the weighted kappa coefficient.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Three different electrical PFMRs could be identified by surface and needle EMG, corresponding with a direct efferent motor response (R1), oligosynaptic (R2), and polysynaptic (R3) afferent reflex response.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Only the R1 electrical PFMR was perfectly associated with the visual PFMR (<jats:italic>\u03ba<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.900).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The visual PFMRs upon sacral spinal nerve stimulation are direct efferent motor responses. 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