Clinical Study
Treating Small Bowel Obstruction with a Manual Physical Therapy: A Prospective Efficacy Study
Table 1
Study participant characteristics.
| Characteristics | Number of subjects |
| Age, years | | Median = 53 | | Range = 10.7–89.4 | | Sex | | Male | 10 | Female | 17 | Race | | Caucasian | 26 | Black | 0 | Hispanic | 1 | Native American | 0 | Other | 0 | Marital status | | Married | 15 | Single | 8 | Widowed | 1 | Divorced | 3 | Number of previous surgeries | | 0 | 3 | 1-2 | 9 | 3–5 | 7 | >6 | 7 | Number of prior partial bowel obstructions | | 0 | 3 | 1–10 | 16 | 11–20 | 5 | >20 | 5 | Number of prior total bowel obstructions | | 0 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Number of hours of treatment | | Median = 20 | | Range = 12–40 | |
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