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#314 Constipation: When the Flow Won’t Go with Dr. Iris Wang

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Iris

i always try to make a diagnosis of pubic florist function. constipation is root of all evil, and palvic floridis function is the root of all constipation. If you have a pelvic floor dis function, like we talked about, with that kind of stool ball going up, if you're resisting the ball movement, you can actually slow down your coal in transit. And so doing calonic transit testing to look for slow transit constipution is not valuable unless you have actually ruled out the palvic flordis function. But it's really a discordance between the findings on the rectal exam and what their muscles are doing when they are having some sort of

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