Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Mechanism of abdominal massage for difficult defecation in a patient with myelopathy (HAM/TSP)

  • LETTER TO THE EDITORS
  • Published:
Journal of Neurology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Preece J (2002) Introducing abdominal massage in palliative care for the relief of constipation. Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery 8:101–105

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Ernst E (1999) Abdominal massage therapy for chronic constipation: a systematic review of controlled clinical trials. Forschende Komplementarmedizin 6:149–151

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Han TR, Kim JH, Kwon BS (1998) Chronic gastrointestinal problems and bowel dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 36:485–490

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Cruickshank JK, Rudge P, Delgleish AG, Newton M, McLean BN, Barnard RO, Kendall BE, Miller DH (1989) Tropical spastic paraparesis and human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 in the United Kingdom. Brain 112:1057–1090

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Hattori T, Sakakibara R, Yamanishi T, Yasuda K, Hirayama K (1994) Micturitional disturbance in human T-lymphotropic virus type-1-associated myelopathy. J Spinal Disord 7:255–258

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Sakakibara R, Odaka T, Uchiyama T, Asahina M, Yamaguchi K, Yamaguchi T, Yamanishi T Hattori T (2003) Colonic transit time and rectoanal videomanometry in Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 74:268–272

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Sakakibara R, Odaka T, Uchiyama T, Liu Z, Asahina M, Yamaguchi K, Yamaguchi T, Yamanishi T, Hattori T (2004) Colonic transit time, sphincter EMG and rectoanal videomanometry in multiple system atrophy. Mov Disord 19:924–929

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Krogh K, Mosdal C, Laurberg S (2000) Gastrointestinal and segmental colonic transit times in patients with acute and chronic spinal cord lesions. Spinal Cord 38:615–621

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Lynch AC, Antony A, Dobbs BR, Frizelle FA (2001) Bowel dysfunction following spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 39:193–203

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Chia YW, Gill KP, Jameson JS, Forti AD, Henry MM, Swash M, Shorvon PJ (1996) Paradoxical puborectalis contraction is a feature of constipation in patients with multiple sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 60:31–35

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. MacDonald A, Paterson PJ, Baxter JN, Finlay IG (1993) Relationship between intra-abdominal and intrarectal pressure in the proctometrogram. Br J Surg 80:1070–1071

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Shafik A, Shafik AA, Ahmed I (2003) Role of positive anorectal feedback in rectal evacuation: the concept of a second defecation reflex: the anorectal reflex. J Spinal Cord Medicine 26:380–383

    Google Scholar 

  13. Blaivas JG (1982) The neurophysiology of micturition; a clinical study of 550 patients. J Urol 127:958–963

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Koizumi K, Sato A, Terui N (1980) Role of somatic afferents in autonomic system control of the intestinal motility. Brain Res 182:85–87

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. Sato A, Sato Y, Schmidt RF (1980) Reflex bladder activity induced by electrical stimulation of hind limb somatic afferents in the cat. J Auton Nerv Syst 1:229–241

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Neurology Dept., Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana Chuo-ku, Chiba 260–8670, Japan

    Z. Liu, R. Sakakibara MD, T. Uchiyama, T. Yamamoto, T. Ito & T. Hattori

  2. First Dept. of Internal Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    T. Odaka

Authors
  1. Z. Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. R. Sakakibara MD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. T. Odaka
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. T. Uchiyama
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. T. Yamamoto
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. T. Ito
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. T. Hattori
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to R. Sakakibara MD.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Liu, Z., Sakakibara, R., Odaka, T. et al. Mechanism of abdominal massage for difficult defecation in a patient with myelopathy (HAM/TSP). J Neurol 252, 1280–1282 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-005-0825-9

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-005-0825-9

Keywords

Search

Navigation