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| Clinical observation on abdominal massage in treating functional constipation in elderly patients |
| Hits 2179 Download times 1373 Received:May 17, 2013 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2014.03.07 |
| Key Words
abdominal massage;functional constipation;the elderly |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | WANG Min | Massage Department of Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou 310013, China | | | SHUN Qing | The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | sq1964@126.com |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To investigate the curative effect of abdominal massage therapy for elderly patients with functional constipation. [Methods] 30 patients met the diagnostic standard were randomly divided into abdominal massage therapy group and control group using randomized drawing, each group 30 cases. Treatment group was treated with abdominal massage and push back, while the control group with oral Tongbianling capsule. [Results] The total effective rate of treatment group was 93.33%, while in control group was 63.33%. The total efficiency rate between two groups had significant difference (P<0.01). [Conclusion] Abdominal massage has a good effect in treating senile functional constipation, and no drug adverse effect and toxicity are found. |
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