For families dealing with bladder and bowel difficulties
Practical guidance to help build healthier routines and better bladder control — whether you’re managing your own bladder habits or supporting your child. Developed by a pediatric bladder specialist based on years of clinical experience.
Coach is only as useful as the diary behind it. This is the part families most often underestimate.
Record drinking, urination volumes and times, leaks and bowel movements. Two days and three nights is the minimum for a reliable picture; bowel habits need seven days.
See a diary in actionYour Bladder Score and the badges identify which habits are already on track and which ones are not. Coach starts from that result rather than from assumptions.
Read how Checkpoint worksGuidance is selected for that child profile and grouped into three areas, so a family knows what to do tomorrow morning rather than in general.
Preview the habit planAn incomplete diary produces unreliable guidance. A carefully kept one produces a personalized and tailored plan specific enough to act on. Use of bladder and stool diary is free and unlimited.
Bladder and bowel habits influence each other, so Coach never treats them separately.
How much you drink matters, but when you drink can matter just as much. Coach suggests a daily fluid amount, how to spreads it across the day, and provides guidance for evening drinking when relevant.
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When and how you urinate both matter. Coach provides practical guidance on timing, regularity of toilet visits, personalized posture with step-by-step video guide and bladder-emptying habits.
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Healthy bowel routines are an important part of healthy bladder habits. Coach provides practical guidance on regular toilet visits, taking enough time, and good toilet posture with step-by-step video guidance.
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Coach was developed by Dr. Slaven Abdović, a pediatric nephrologist working at Children’s Hospital Zagreb in Croatia since 2013. His clinical work includes urotherapy, urodynamics, and caring for children with daytime incontinence and bedwetting.
He is board certified by the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology and developed the overactivity index, a published measure that Checkpoint uses to interpret bladder diary data.
The guidance in Coach comes from the same principles and practical advice used with families in clinical practice, translated into a structured, step-by-step format that can be followed at home.
Coach grew from an idea I first explored in clinical practice: could a bladder diary be turned into practical guidance families could follow at home? These are three moments from the journey that followed.
So if the diary can deliver data on the cause of LUTS, then a smart and carefully designed algorithm could deliver personalized remote urotherapy — that was the plan. An excellent part about urotherapy is that it is regularly investigated in clinical studies, which have shown similar outcomes to pharmacotherapy.
This was for sure the lowest point in the life of my app: I had already stretched too thin, and my financial commitments had exceeded the safe zone. It was the point where I was sure just a moment separated me from failure, unless some miracle happened.
In the outpatient clinic, with a child sitting in front of me, I would open the file and type in the age, the gender, the weight. Excel would calculate how often this child should be peeing and how much they should be drinking, and I would walk through the appropriate sheet to choose interventions.
We wanted to know whether Coach could reproduce the urotherapy guidance an experienced specialist would provide from the same bladder diary. We tested it using 46 anonymized case models, each with a diary, Checkpoint results, and a plan written by an incontinence specialist. Two pediatric nephrologists independently reviewed the results.
of Coach plans matched the specialist-written urotherapy plan. In 19.6% of cases, reviewers considered the Coach plan better than the original
of cases were expected by reviewers to improve after three months of consistently following the plan
of cases were expected by reviewers to show substantial improvement
Reviewers found no incorrect or harmful guidance in 97.8% of cases; the single flagged item was traced to a bug in the selection logic and corrected. The last two figures are expert expectations recorded during concept validation, not measured treatment outcomes — Coach has not been tested in a clinical trial. Read the full validation story →
Standard urotherapy is usually given at least four to six weeks before its effect can be judged. That is a long time to work without feedback, which is what Trends is for.
Each time you create a new Checkpoint, Trends records the score alongside the previous ones, so change is visible as a line rather than a feeling. Ranks and the number of badges unlocked are listed the same way.
This matters for adherence more than it sounds. Families who can see a score move from one Checkpoint to the next are far more likely to keep going through the weeks when nothing else has obviously changed yet.
Coach does not identify a condition. It works from the habits recorded in the diary.
It supports the routine between appointments. Your diary summary is free so it can be shared with them.
The guidance follows standard urotherapy as defined by the International Children’s Continence Society.
Coach is under active development and will keep changing as we learn from use.
Unlocks unlimited use of advanced features per one child profile. Unlocking bladder habit builder for multiple profiles requires additional purchases.
Bladder Habit Builder — €29Checkpoint and Coach are educational features, not medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional for medical decisions.
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