The use of abdominal massage to treat chronic constipation

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 436-445

  Sinclair, Marybetts ^a  

^a C/o Maren ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel stasis; Ileus; Peristalsis; Self massage; Transit time

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; IRON; LAXATIVE; OPIATE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL MASSAGE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; AGING; ANUS FISSURE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CELIAC DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILDBIRTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DEFECATION HABIT; DEHYDRATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEMORRHOID; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFESTYLE; MASSAGE; MOOD CHANGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE ENDING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEXUAL ABUSE; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH MUSCLE; STOMACH WALL; STROKE; TRANSVERSE COLON; TUMOR; VAGUS NERVE; VIBRATION; WELLBEING;

ABDOMEN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MASSAGE; PERISTALSIS;

EID: 80053276070     PISSN: 13608592     EISSN: 15329283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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