Combination therapy with biofeedback, loperamide, and stool-bulking agents is effective for the treatment of fecal incontinence in women - a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Biofeedback and medical treatments have been extensively used for moderate fecal incontinence (FI). There is limited data comparing and combining these two treatments. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of biofeedback and medical treatments, separately and in combination.

Rectal pressure response to a meal in patients with high spinal cord injury.

Objectives: To determine whether there is a postprandial increase of rectal pressure in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to compare their rectal pressures with those of healthy volunteers.

Design: A before-after trial comparing SCI and control subjects.

Setting: Patients were recruited from the register of an SCI unit at a rehabilitation medicine department, and the study took place at the university hospital laboratory in Sweden.