TABLE 2.

Pelvic floor rehabilitation: possible benefits for patients with low anterior resection syndrome

Component	Acronym	Expected benefit
Pelvic floor muscle training	PFMT	May reduce leakage by improving the structural support, timing and strength of automatic contractions
Biofeedback training	BF	Can help patients by optimizing their motor response through visual and hearing signals, lowering the threshold for the discrimination of a rectal sensation of distension and synchronizing voluntary contraction of the external anal sphincter in response to such distension
Rectal balloon training	RBT	May improve rectal sensitivity by stepwise reductions in rectal balloon distension, in order to distinguish smaller rectal volumes, tolerate urgency by using progressive distension or using a voluntary anal squeeze to counteract the recto‐anal inhibitory reflex in response to rectal filling