Randomized Controlled Trial of Biofeedback, Sham Feedback, and Standard Therapy for Dyssynergic Defecation

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-338

  Rao, Satish S C ^a   Seaton, Kara ^a   Miller, Megan ^a   Brown, Kice ^a   Nygaard, Ingrid ^a   Stumbo, Phyllis ^b   Zimmerman, Bridgette ^b   Schulze, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; GLUCONATE MAGNESIUM; GLYCEROL; LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION HABIT; DIET; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATAXIA; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CATHARTICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947142919     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.12.023     Document Type: Article

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