07/05/2025
WHAT IS CONSTIPATION?
- A functional bowel disorder characterised by infrequent, difficult or painful bowel movements
- Having less than 3 bowel movements a week where your stools are hard, dry or difficult to pass
- Infrequency bowel movements or difficulty passing stools which persist for more than several weeks
- A sensation of incomplete evacuation
- When your stool moves at a slow pace through your colon/tjock tärm that you are usually familiar with.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CAUSES?
- Ignoring the urge to go. Holding on
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Gut Dysbiosis
- Illness
- Dietary causes
- Allergies
- Eating disorders
- Lack of Exercise/movement
- Sleep irregularity or disturbances
- Stress / anxiety/ depression
- Change in your routine like travelling
- Sedentary work/lifestyle
- Life Stage factors - menstruation, pregnancy/ peri /pre / menopause
- Psychological and emotional Factors
- Environmental and external factors
- Medications or supplement induced constipation
- Musculoskeletal
- Pelvic floor disorders
- Colon surgery
- Trauma/ injury /surgery
- Underlying medical conditions
- Parasite
THIS ALL IMPACTS (pardon the pun)
THE WHOLE OF YOUR BODY AND MIND.
HOW CAN OSTEOPATHY HELP YOU MNAGE YOUR SYMPTOMS OF CONSTIPATION?
It is so individual when it comes to constipation and that’s why each treatment really is designed specifically for you. Together we can find out how certain day to day factors may be predisposing your current constipation problem affecting the whole of your being.
BOOKING LINK IN BIO or call to find out if osteopathy is something for you.
OSTEOPATHY for natural relief.
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