Safety and Efficacy of Manual and Automated Abdominal Colonic Massage for Chronic Constipation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Clin Transl Gastroenterol · 2026 · PMC13400043 · PMID 41919979

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Similarly, when the 2 patient cohorts were analyzed separately, the differences between either intervention and the control group did not reach statistical significance for either BM/w or QoL.

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