ABDOMINAL ADHESION REFERENCES
These articles are the backbone of how we stay oriented to our work and we are consistently adding to our reading. We do our best to keep this page updated. If you know of research we should be reading that’s not listed here, please send us the DOI so we can look it up!
You’ll notice our reference list is heavily weighted to research on adhesion-related bowel obstruction (sometimes called “adhesive small bowel obstruction” or “ASBO”). This is because bowel obstructions are such a recognized problem after abdominal surgeries and the soft tissue manipulation (a type of massage) that our clinic offers has, so far, been very effective in helping people stay out of the hospital for obstructions.
Lastly, we generally try to keep the articles we rely on less than 10 years old (we prefer 7 or less) unless it is seminal research or unless it was based on statistical data available during a defined time period and there has not been an update to the study. The articles are also checked against the Retraction Watch database to ensure they are in good standing.
References
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