Biofeedback therapy in constipated, female patients and caused by radical hysterectomy or vaginal delivery

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1133-1140

  Park, Soo Kyung ^a   Myung, Seung Jae ^a   Jung, Kee Wook ^a   Chun, Yoon Hee ^b   Yang, Dong Hoon ^a   Seo, So Young ^a   Ku, Hyun Sook ^a   Yoon, In Ja ^a   Kim, Kyung Jo ^a   Ye, Byong Duk ^a   Byeon, Jeong Sik ^a   Jung, Hwoon Yong ^a   Yang, Suk Kyun ^a   Kim, Jin Ho ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul Clinical Laboratories   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biofeedback therapy; Constipation; Delivery; Hysterectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON EXPULSION TEST; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ANAL CANAL; DELIVERY; HYSTERECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM; VERY ELDERLY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM;

EID: 84879444463     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgh.12158     Document Type: Article

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