Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — According to research presented at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with fecal incontinence experience negligible differences in improvement between primary interventions ...

The internal anal sphincter consists of smooth muscle and maintains 70% of the resting anal tone. The external anal sphincter consists of striated muscle and accounts for the remaining 30% of resting ...

Biofeedback therapy is a nondrug treatment in which people learn to control bodily processes that are usually involuntary, such as muscle tension, blood pressure, or heart rate. Biofeedback may help ...

Most patients with faecal incontinence are managed with conservative measures and biofeedback techniques Sacral nerve stimulation has dramatically changed the management of patients with faecal ...

It may sometimes feel like you have little control over what happens inside your body, and how that affects your overall health. But there is a way to harness physiological functions like breathing, ...

A literature review by Veterans Affairs researchers highlights the usefulness of biofeedback for headache and incontinence treatment, and stroke recovery. There was less evidence for its role in other ...

The goal of treatment for patients with FI is to restore, or at least improve, continence and minimize the impact of FI on QOL. Complete continence may not be achievable, depending on the etiology, ...

Attention to subtle changes in body functions may boost mental health, speed recovery from surgery or stroke, treat urinary incontinence, and more. Here’s how. When you think of treating a disease or ...

Pete Culmer receives funding from EPSRC (EP/N027345/1) and the NIHR. Today’s healthcare is full of technology that would seem like science fiction to our grandparents. But this is far from true in ...

A literature review by a team at the VA Portland Health Care System and Oregon Health & Science University found evidence that biofeedback can be a helpful treatment for several conditions. Studies ...

Fecal incontinence is a common problem in women, which often enforces life changes owing to embarrassment and social stigma. It is frequently not reported or diagnosed. Age, obstetric trauma, pelvic ...