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Five Things Clinicians Need to Know about ROME IV May 2018
The Rome Foundation continues to actively educate clinicians worldwide on the new Rome IV criteria in order to expand their understanding of functional GI [...]
Chronic IBS or Abdominal Pain? Ten Tips for Self-Management from Dr. Drossman April 2018
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common and burdensome chronic conditions, reported by patients, according to the International Foundation for Functional [...]
Five Things Patients with Brain-Gut Disorders Need to Know
Five Things Patients with Disorders Involving Brain-Gut Interaction Need to Know About Effective Doctor-Patient Communications April 2018 Functional gastrointestinal disorders, what we are now [...]
Five Things Patients Need to Know about Neuromodulators for Functional GI Pain April 2018
Central neuromodulators (antidepressants, antipsychotics and other CNS targeted medications) are increasingly used for treatment of functional GI disorders (FGIDs), now recognized as Disorders [...]
Five Things You Need to Know About Functional Vomiting Syndromes March 2018
Vomiting as an occasional symptom is an adaptive physiological process where the body seeks to rid itself of offending substances ingested. It may [...]
Five Things You Should Know About Gastroparesis and Cyclic Vomiting Syndromes March 2018
Gastroparesis is a type of vomiting where the normal coordination of gastric emptying of ingested food is delayed. As a result, food doesn’t empty [...]
Five Things You Should Know About Narcotic Bowel Syndrome March 2018
Narcotic bowel syndrome (NBS) is characterized by a paradoxical increase in abdominal pain that is associated with continuous or increasing dosages of narcotics. [...]
Five Things Patients Need to Know About Opioids March 2018
Opioids were one of the earliest classes of medications used for pain across a variety of conditions, but morbidity and mortality have been increasingly [...]
Opioid Misuse in Gastroenterology and Non-Opioid Management of Abdominal Pain
Opioids were one of the earliest classes of medications used for pain across a variety of conditions, but morbidity and mortality have been increasingly [...]
Understanding and Managing Pain in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) – Tips and Insight June 2017
This is an excerpt from a recent article I authored for the IFFGD. It appears here with permission. Read full article Pain, by definition, [...]