Proper bowel movements involve contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles. If you have bowel dysfunction it is typically pelvic floor dysfunction – you lose the ability to correctly contract/tighten and then relax the muscles in the pelvic floor for a proper bowel movement.
Bowel Dysfunction Disorders
- Constipation: Difficulty emptying the bowels.
- Dyssynergic Pelvic Floor Muscle: Difficulty relaxing/coordinating pelvic floor muscle to allow defecation.
- Painful Bowel Movements.
- Fecal Incontinence: Inability to control bowel movements (involuntary leakage).
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Including lower abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and constipation or diarrhea.
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse: One or more pelvic organs descend out of normal position into vaginal canal.
Symptoms
- Slow transit time.
- Infrequent bowel movements (often less than twice a week).
- Incomplete bowel emptying.
- Involuntary bowel leakage
- Abdominal discomfort.
- Pain with evacuation of bowels.
- Splinting /needing to change positions to complete bowel movement.
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