Patient Information

Health Topics

Bowel, Learn About

• Healthy Bowel Habits

Constipation, Learn About

• Healthy Bowel Habits
• Golden Rules of a High Fiber Diet
  • Food, Fiber and Fluid Diary
• Bowel Diary
• Natural Laxatives
• Belladonna and Opium Suppositories
• Nitroglycerin Ointment
• Constipation Recipe
• Miralax/Gycolax/Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)
• Rectocele
  • Splinting
• Soft Diet

Incontinence, Learn About

• Healthy Bowel Habits
• Golden Rules of a High Fiber Diet
  • Food, Fiber and Fluid Diary
• Colectomy Diet
• Elimination Diet
• Food Diary
• Bowel Diary
• Gas Reducing Diet
• Gas Diary
• Helpful Hints for Incontinence
• Kegel Exercises
• Rectocele
  • Splinting

Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Learn About

• Rectal Prolapse
  • How to Reduce your Rectal Prolapse
• Golden Rules of a High Fiber Diet
  • Food, Fiber and Fluid Diary
• Healthy Bowel Habits
• Prolapse Surgery, Discharge Instructions

Rectocele, Learn About

• Healthy Bowel Habits
• Golden Rules of a High Fiber Diet
  • Food, Fiber and Fluid Diary
• Splinting

Rectovaginal Fistulas, Learn About

• Seton
• Rectovaginal Fistula Repair, Discharge Instructions

Sphincter - artificial bowel sphincter

• Alternative Treatments (Artificial Bowel Sphincter)

Tests and Procedures

• Introduction - video
• Anal Ultrasound
  • video on anal ultrasound test
• Anorectal Manometry (ARM)
  • video on anorectal manometry test
• Colonic Transit Test
  • Colonic Transit Test Diary Sheet
• Colonoscopy
• Defecography
  • video on defecography test
• Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency Testing
  • video on pudendal nerve terminal motor latency test
• Sigmoidoscopy
• Small Bowel Double Balloon Enteroscopy
• Smart Pill Patient Instructions