Correct position for opening your bowels

Step one – Knees higher than hips

Step two – Lean forwards and put elbows on your knees

Step three – Bulge out your abdomen; Straighten your spine

Correct position: Knees higher than hips; Lean forwards and put elbows on your knees; Bulge out your abdomen; Straighten your spine

Reproduced by the kind permission of Ray Addison, Nurse Consultant in Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction.

Wendy Ness, Colorectal Nurse Specialist.

Produced as a service to the medical profession by Norgine Ltd. November 2003