Financial & competing interests disclosure
BR Southwell holds patents on the method of transcutaneous electrical stimulation to treat constipation. She has received Australian Government National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) grants to study the effect of transcutaneous electrical stimulation on children with slow-transit constipation and with anorectal retention and to develop an electrical stimulation device specifically to treat constipation. She has received investment from the Medical Research Commercialization Fund to develop the device and created a startup company – GI Therapies (Melbourne, Australia) – to develop and test a prototype device. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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