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RELEVANT LINKS FOR ENURESIS AND ENCOPRESIS
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This website had the most active parents' forum about encopresis on the internet, but it fell victim to being overburdened by spammers. It has continued to have sporadic parent inputs, but its traffic has slowed significantly. I have established an alternative and successful forum through www.encopresis.org (or www.bedwetting.org or www.enuresis.org--they all point to the same forums) as a public service open to all. I have taken safeguards against spammers by examining all registrants for obvious give away signs. I will enforce good netiquette and ban commercial messages for these forums. All viewpoints will be welcomed. Feel free to check out encopresis.org (click here). As an additional feature you will also find an enuresis forum at any of these aforementioned .org sites. DrC.
Australia--A Pediatrician Specializing in Treating Enuresis and Encopresis:
Dr. David Cutting is a valued colleague who is reporting initial success rates of 79% using the bedwetting alarm in his pediatric office practice in Melbourne Australia. At 6 mo's 73% continued to be dry and at 24 mo's 64% continued dry. It is very rare that a busy practicing physician is able to systematically conduct follow up research and report on the results of his own treatments. He utilizes two continence nurses and his interventions are very elaborate and very, very supportive. Check his site out.
Bedwetting.org
or Enuresis.org:
An ultimate source on bedwetting alarms, bladder control, a parents' forum for bedwetting or enuresis, and the latest scientific research.
A
search engine and web index.
This resource is a convenience index for general to specific health issues. It also provides links to major search engines.
This site is very succinct and highly focussed. It features only the most important and relevant "Gateways" for the successful treatment of encopresis (soiling) or enuresis (bladder incontinence day or night) in children.
The encopresis forum at this site has been the most rapidly growing forum devoted to encopresis on the internet.
A
special search engine tailored for women.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Website:
Resource site for everything to do with HIPAA. This is especilly relevant for legal and health professionals. Full of newsletters, articles, links and other resources - ALL FREE - in one easy to navigate site to save time and money.
Incontinence and Medical Links Library®. A page of extensive, informative incontinence and medical links from around the world
International
Foundation of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders:
IFFGD, the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, is a nonprofit education and research organization founded in 1991. IFFGD addresses the issues surrounding life with gastrointestinal (GI) functional and motility disorders and increases the awareness about these disorders among the general public, researchers, and the clinical care community. This site refers to information and fact sheets, which can be purchased for learning about a variety of problems and interventions unique to the GI tract or certain portions or conditions thereof.
Keep
Kids Healthy.com Website:
This
is an extensive pediatric website with extensive medical and behavioral information
for parents. It contains useful forms, links, and insights about various pediatric
issues and problems.
National
Library of Medicine--Access
to Primary Medical Journal Articles:
This
site allows ready access to primary scientific abstracts in the medical-related
literature by search terms, authors, and cited authors. It allows for very convenient,
comprehensive searches of the medical literature.
National Register of Health Service Providers for Psychology:
Dr Collins is a charter member. The National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, a national nonprofit organization, is committed to advancing psychology as a profession and improving the delivery of health services to the public. To realize its mission, it:
*Disseminates
standards for evaluating the education and training of licensed psychologists;
*Evaluates programs that enhance the education, training, and delivery of services
by psychologists;
*Reviews the practices and ethics of psychologists to ensure integrity in the
profession and quality of patient care; and
*Provides information on psychologists to the health care community and to the
general public.
*With twenty-five years of experience serving the public, psychologists, and
the healthcare community, the National Register is the largest and most successful
credentialing organization in psychology.
New Zealand Enuresis Encopresis Association:
This is a truly unique organization led by parents with a combined interest in both enuresis and encopresis. My impression is that in many "socialized medicine" countries much more is asked, expected, and volunteered by families to manage problems with behavioral methods than here in the USA. The USA appears to be more medicalized and "stuck" on the use of medications and surgical procedures.
While the majority of the cases of encopresis are of the retentive or "outlet obstruction" variety, some children pass normal, soft stools, but don't do it when and where they are supposed to, which is the very definition of encopresis. The medical assessment is usually normal, and signs of constipation are noticeably absent. This link takes you to the original article entitled, "Treatment Guidelines for Primary Nonretentive Encopresis and Stool Toileting Refusal" in The American Family Physician, which you can read through in the original. You will also find there the means for ordering a pamphlet on this problem. Our Soiling Solutions approaches can often be effective for this form of encopresis because it regulates and forms habits for urge recognition and voiding on a regular, preventative schedule. Many medical authorities are pessimistic about the successful treatment of this form of encopresis.Title: Sleep Disorders Guide
A comprehensive information guide about sleep disorders. Descriptions, symptoms, causes, treatments of various sleep disorders like sleep apnea, bedwetting, encopresis,insomnia, snoring, restless legs and narcolepsy.
This
is a Holistic Health directory dealing with non-traditional and alternative
health perspectives. This website is included under biofeedback at this site
which is simply another view of conditioning physiological responses. This allows
my approaches to remain more on the hard behavioral or medical science side
of alternatives to the traditional surgical and medication approaches.
Thomson ISI--Formerly the Institute for Scientific Information:
Dr. Collins, the author of this website, subscribes to the weekly citation service from the ISI which keeps him informed of the most recent, relevant publications of interest. For over 45 years, ISI® (founded as the Institute for Scientific Information®) has been providing over seven million researchers with products and services that help them to keep up with the scientific advances in their own areas of interest.
Tri-state Incontinence Support Group:
This
is an excellent educational site for information and resources dealing with
incontinence in adults and children. It has been in existence for at least 10
years and is lay-led.
University
of North Carolina Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders:
This site
offers up-to-date information on Functional GI and Motility Disorders for both
the professional and the patient, and provides information on the Center and
its research, training, patient education and clinical treatment. The Co-directors
of this Center are Douglas A Drossman, MD and William Whitehead, PhD who have
been very instrumental in the formation of the International Foundation of Functional
Gastrointestinal Disorders (see link above) and arranging for its International
Conferences on Encopresis and Enuresis.
University of Virginia Children's Medical Center:
This
is a good authoritative independent site for basic, background information on
encopresis. It provides a good graphic of the GI tract and how retentive encopresis
occurs. It provides the best, most complete account of the traditional approaches
to treating encopresis. I have cited the work of Dr Daniel Cox and Lee Ritterband
from the University of Virginia under the Scientific Articles and Most Recent
Scientific Abstracts pages on this web site. Stephen Borowitz, MD, Professor
of Pediatrics and Health Evaluation Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Division
of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Virginia is the author of www.aboutencopresis.com,
which formerly had the most active encopresis discussion list on the internet
as of January, 2005. Personal communication with Dr Ritterband indicates that
a major research study will likely be undertaken in the Spring of 2008 on their
web-based approach to the treatment of encopresis. I will assist in recruiting
subject for that study on my Home page when they are ready to announce it (also
visit encopresis.com).
Bed Links Directory--A Complete Lists of Bed Sites in the UK:
The UK's most comprehensive directory of Bed websites and other links.
www.cwimedical.com
has been providing incontinence supplies for over 14 years. We've grown from
incontinence to carrying a variety of products related to our incontinence products.
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