Journal of rehabilitation research & development difficulty with evacuation after spinal cord injury: colonic motility during sleep and effects of abdominal wall stimulation... In addition, since contraction of the abdominal wall musculature plays a role in normal defecation, we assessed whether an abdominal belt with implanted electrodes would improve DWE....
Methods a description of the physiologic principles involved in the clinical... The chief measures employed included exsufflation with negative pressure and an abdominal belt of the type used in the treat-ment of pulmonary emphysema 1_e; a case report illustrates the therapeutic response to these measures and, in addition, the mental...
The influence of increased peritoneal membrane surface area on dialysis adequacy... We designed a mechanism to increase the membrane surface contact area by using an abdominal belt in order to exert enough pressure on the fill volume, to effectively recruit more area in contact for exchange....
Representative patient treated with concurrent sunitinib and igrt.... b) The rib lesion was treated with Novalis using dynamic arcs using the ITV method with an abdominal belt used to dampen respiratory motion....
