Biofeedback therapy for symptoms of bowel dysfunction following surgery for colorectal cancer

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-326

  Bartlett, L ^a   Sloots, K ^b   Nowak, M ^a   Ho, Y H ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Fecal incontinence; Patient satisfaction; Post surgery bowel dysfunction; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY; BOWEL DYSFUNCTION; BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFECATION; DEFECATION URGENCY; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FECAL INCONTINENCE QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEFECATION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052471535     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: 1128045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-011-0713-5     Document Type: Review

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