Tag: bowel

Stress, Bowel Movements, and Your Pelvic Floor

Stress, Bowel Movements, and Your Pelvic Floor

Your Stress Levels Affect your Bowel Movements and Vice Versa Psychological stress affects your bowels. Perhaps you know this through personal experience, but research in the past decade has strengthened the link between stress and bowel problems including IBS, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and constipation (Chang et al., 2014). Chang et al. (2014) found that […]

Pelvic Floor Therapy for Bowel Urgency and Incontinence

Pelvic Floor Therapy for Bowel Urgency and Incontinence

Can pelvic floor therapy for bowel urgency and incontinence help you? It’s National IBS Month and our series on bowel health continues. Today’s article is for those with irritable bowel syndrome that tends towards softer stools and diarrhea (IBS-D). Most people have experienced fecal urgency at least once in their lives- the experience of rushing […]

Chronic Constipation | The Basics

Chronic Constipation | The Basics

Dealing With Chronic Constipation? Read On. Most people experience constipation from time to time. Constipation isn’t just the inability to have a bowel movement, it includes the difficulty associated with bowel movements. Travel, inactivity, illness, and certain over the counter medications taken “as needed” commonly result in short-term or acute constipation. Constipation lasting longer than […]