2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Examination of effective intestinal movement facilitation technique

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24792477
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Clinical nursing
Research Institution	Hyogo University of Health Sciences
Principal Investigator	MORISAWA Tomoyuki 兵庫医療大学, リハビリテーション学部, 講師 (80552512)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	腸管運動 / 運動療法 / 温熱療法 / 自律神経
Research Abstract	The purpose of the present study is to compare effects of passive exercise of lower limbs and trunk(PELT), ermotherapy(TT) and Combination(COM, PELT and TT) on bowel sounds in healthy adult subjects. The subjects is sixteen healthy adult male. While bowel sounds significantly increased following all physiotherapies. As for the increase rate of the bowel sound in each physiotherapies, COM was the highest in an increase rate in TT (33.0%), PELT (20.1%), COM (35.8%). The correlation was not found between bowel sound and the autonomic nerves. We found that any of tested physiotherapies increased bowel sounds suggesting that these physiotherapies are clinically useful to treat patients with reduced intestinal motility due to limited spontaneous movement or inability to rise up from bed.