Re: Adhesions, Bowel Obstruction and Ab-Tronic

From: Rose (rpoinsett99@yahoo.com)
Tue Apr 16 12:49:57 2002


At Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Rose wrote: >
>I had a bowel resection when I was born however I never had a problem
>with adhesions until this past December. I was in the hospital for 4
>days with an NG tube. The obstruction eased and I was discharged. My
>question is...has anyone heard of a correlation between the new
>electrical stimulation contraptions that are being sold on infomercials
>like the Ab-Tronic or Ab-Isolator. You put it around your stomach and
>it sends electrical impulses to your muscles and the end result is
>supposed to be tight, firm abs. I was using this for about two weeks
>when I got the obstruction. I was wondering if the electrical impulses
>could cause the adhesions to cause problems? Thanks for any input.

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