Constipation or constipation

By Dr. Massimo Massari

Therapy

Basically it is necessary to ensure that the colon eliminates its contents at most every 2 days.

It is therefore physiological to consider a frequency of evacuation of once every two to three days (three or at most two weekly evacuations).

Great importance must be given to the hydration of the intestinal contents; as a rule our body, physiologically, needs at least two liters of liquids to be taken every day.

When we take, regularly, a smaller quantity, the body recovers the water reducing the production of urine and / or increasing the reabsorption of water from the contents of the colon; in this case the digestion residues will become more dry, making their expulsion slower and more difficult.

Therefore, it is often sufficient to drink a greater quantity of liquids and increase the fiber content of the diet, in order to improve constipation markedly.

If the increase in the introduction of liquids and fibers is not sufficient to regularize the intestine, it will be necessary to resort to framacological therapy.

The commonly used drugs have different actions: they can reduce the absorption of water allowing a greater hydration of the contents of the colon, they can act by stimulating the motility of the colon muscles, or, finally, blocking the inhibition of motility, that is, blocking the effects of the "brain-gut axis".

Moreover, prolonged use of drugs over the years causes addiction to them, with progressive reduced efficacy.

For about 3 years, we have been using a non-pharmacological method of neurostimulation: the FREMS Therapy .

FREMS Therapy

Position of the electrodes placed along the course of the colon:

It is a trans cutaneous neurostimulation technique (no needles or chemical or pharmacological substances are used); substantially through electrodes positioned on the skin (as shown in the image) we deliver electric fields formed by pulsed currents at variable frequency, very low pulse time and moderate voltage, created in the bio-energy research laboratory.

The pulsed currents generated by the neurostimulator are able to act on the innervation of the colon muscles, modifying the concentration of the cells responsible for producing the "Serotonin" (called enterochromaffins), which, as we mentioned at the beginning, is the neuromodulator necessary to regulate, among other functions, colon motility.

The results obtained in about 100 treated patients were extremely satisfactory, as we observed a physiological recovery of the evacuations, with a daily frequency or at most 2 weekly evacuations without taking laxatives.