Bowel Dysfunction A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professional
This definitive guide for healthcare professionals looks at functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and pelvic floor, as well as the treatments used within the current healthcare context. The chapters help the readers to access and understand r
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Bowel Dysfunction
Brigitte Collins • Elissa Bradshaw Editors
Bowel Dysfunction A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Editors Brigitte Collins The Sir Alan Parkes Physiology and Neuromodulation Unit St Marks Hospital Harrow, UK
Elissa Bradshaw The Sir Alan Parkes Physiology and Neuromodulation Unit St Marks Hospital Harrow, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-43212-0 ISBN 978-3-319-43214-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43214-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940401 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword for Bowel Dysfunction: The Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals
Medicine is becoming ever more specialist. Previously any discussion pertaining to constipation or faecal incontinence would have merited no more than a few paragraphs in textbook on gastrointestinal illness. The first edition of this book is a timely reflection of the quantity of emerging literature in the area of colorectal functional disorders. A search of the literature just 25 years ago reveals that there were 447 articles on these two topics combined, whereas by 2015 there was a near fourfold increase, to a total of 1836 manuscripts. This increase in publications has reflected the increasing burden of clinical work: in the USA there are an estimated 2.5 million physician visits and 100,000 hospitalizations annually for chronic constipation. This book serves the reader both as a clinical guide, but also a source of the basic scientific principles underlying clinical presentation and emerging treatments.
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