Obesity is significantly associated with fecal incontinence (FI), fecal urgency, and large rectoceles, as well as higher anal and rectal resting pressures, new research suggests. Two thirds (66.5%) of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The ACG published clinical practice guidelines on the preferred approach and management strategy for defecation ...

Defecation urgency in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common and devastating symptom, involves sensory as well as emotional components, suggesting that the brain plays as much of a role in urgency ...

Contractile patterns in rectum, puborectalis muscle and anal sphincter must be studied to understand defecation. Six subjects had contractile waveforms studied with Fecobionics. Symptom questionnaires ...

Fecal incontinence (FI) is characterized by involuntary loss of rectal content through the anal canal. It is a psychologically and socially debilitating problem that can dramatically affect quality of ...

Over the past 20 years, the use of opiates and opioids for the management of chronic pain has significantly increased. Approximately 40% to 90% of patients treated with opioids experience ...

(HealthDay)—In clinical guidelines issued by the American College of Gastroenterology and published in the October issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, recommendations are presented ...

The Pelvic Floor Health Center is a multidisciplinary program that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of defecation disorders and other disorders of the pelvic floor, including fecal ...

Some of us are not aware of the impacts of open-air defecation. We are not even aware of what is open-air defecation. Basically, open-air defecation is the emptying of bowels in an open environment ...