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Constipation is an uncomfortable and often painful condition that affects up to 15 per cent of the population. Eating fibre, exercising and taking laxatives can help, but some people find that nothing works.
Judith Moore at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and her colleagues recently tested a new constipation treatment designed to increase bowel motions by stimulating nerves in the gut.
They asked 33 women aged 18 to 75 with chronic constipation to use an electrical stimulation device at home for one hour a day for 6 weeks.
The …