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Rectal digitation is when patients insert a finger into the anus to "hook" out fecal pellets, [20] or to apply pressure to the walls of the anus and/or the rectum (distension of which may trigger a bowel movement), or to support an obstructing anatomic defect such as a sigmoidocele.
Dyssynergic defecation causes high pressure in the rectum and in the anal canal, [1] which causes lengthening [1] and compression of the rectal tissues, which in turn leads to ischema of the mucosa. [8] There is also a shearing movement of the rectum against the pelvic floor muscles. [8] In the long term this leads to repeated mucosal damage. [8]
Rectal tenesmus is a feeling of incomplete defecation. [1] It is the sensation of inability or difficulty to empty the bowel at defecation, even if the bowel contents have already been evacuated. Tenesmus indicates the feeling of a residue, and is not always correlated with the actual presence of residual fecal matter in the rectum.
Pelvic floor dysfunction, rectal nerve issues, and weakened anal sphincter muscles can also impact continence, or our control over bowel movements, and how much stool or residue is left behind ...
The act has a variety of names ranging from the common, like pooping or crapping, to the technical, e.g. bowel movement, to the obscene , to the euphemistic ("doing number two", "dropping a deuce" or "taking a dump"), to the juvenile ("making doo-doo").
Symptoms include a dull ache more often to the left 2 inches above the anus or higher in the rectum and a feeling of constant rectal pressure or burning. The pain may last for 30 minutes or longer, and is usually described as chronic or intermittent with prolonged periods, in contrast to the brief pain of the related disorder proctalgia fugax.