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[Jeffrey Roberts]

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AGMD Digestive Motility SymposiumAGMD will be holding its Digestive Motility Symposium in partnership with The University of Kansas Medical Center Continuing Education. The event will be held at the Doubletree Bedford Glen Hotel in Bedford, Massachusetts. The program is open to physicians, nurses, scientists, dietitians, associated health professionals, patients, family members and all those interested in digestive motility diseases and disorders. They will feature experts in the field of pediatric as well ad adult motility.When: July 27-29, 2012Where: Doubletree Bedford Glen Hotel, Bedford, MassachusettsMore information from the AGMD website, http://www.agmd-gimotility.org/

[Jeffrey Roberts]

A reminder that this event is happening this weekend, July 27-29, in Bedford, Massachusetts.This symposium will provide an overview into digestive motility diseases and disorders affecting pediatric and adult patients. It will focus on clinical features, symptoms, possible causes, diagnosis, various treatments, nutritional aspects and options available as well as research that is presently being conducted in order to improve knowledge and competency in this specialized field of gastroenterology. In addition, the symposium will provide awareness of the impact of digestive motility disease on family members and offer insight from the patient’s perspective on living with digestive motility diseases and disorders.This symposium will be beneficial to physicians, (especially gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, surgeons and primary care physicians), nurses, basic science and clinical researchers, nutritionists, dietitians, pharmaceutical representatives, biotech corporations, home infusion servers, nutritional companies, home healthcare professionals, patients, family members, caregivers, social workers, and those in the community interested in digestive motility diseases and disorders.More info: http://events.r20.co...a&llr=o98iuvgab

[faze action]

Man, I would go to this if it wasn't this weekend. Already have plans though...

[annie7]

yes--wish i could go too.agmd has a terrific website--full of info-- and the forums are a good source of information and support as well....although the ibs self help and support group is the best of course--lol! thanks, Jeff!

[tummyrumbles]

Maybe digestive motility disorder and IBS could be merged into a new term. I have digestive motility disorder, which is partly genetic (problems on both sides of the family) partly neurologic (we all know it's a nervous system disorder) but also idiopathic meaning there's no known cause, which is probably how a doctor would describe it.I think the digestive motility disorder leads to IBS. If you have "stop and go" peristalsis like I do the only thing you can do is sit it out. The interesting thing is trying to understand how this disorder leads to IBS. I'm guessing it's a nervous condition affecting the colon and sphincter, so these acquire an "IBS personality" due to presence of stool in the colon. The question is: why is it that some people with constipation don't seem to have gas problems? Is it because these people are less nervy or anxious to begin with? So a Leaky Gasser is by nature a more sensitive, self-aware type of person and their colon picks up on this? In other words, all people with digestive motility disorder who are constipation-dominant will have a problem with retained stool. But not all of these people will suffer from gas because of it, and so won't have IBS (the irritable colon). Is this all down to personality type?