100
Participants
Start Date
June 30, 2013
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2014
Perineal Self-Acupressure
The core of the technique is to have subjects repeatedly press on and massage their perineum before defecation to fragment and soften the stool before it passes the lower rectum and anus.
Educational Control
Education on conventional treatment options for chronic constipation.
UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, Los Angeles
Yale University
OTHER
University of California, Los Angeles
OTHER