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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients electively treated for rectal cancer with a low anterior resection. * Unsuccessful PCT after at least 4 weeks of treatment for LARS (LARS score \>29 at evaluation). * At least 3 months after surgery (including reversal of a temporary loop-ileostomy). * Age \>= 18 years * Ability to understand written and spoken language actual for the including site (due to questionnaire validity). Exclusion Criteria: * Former use of TAI * Prior systematic use of rectal emptying aids * Anastomotic stenosis * History of anastomotic leakage * Current metastatic disease or local recurrence * Ongoing oncological treatment * Postoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer * Previous or current cancer in other pelvic organs than the rectum * Underlying diarrhoeal disease * Inflammatory bowel disease * Dementia * Spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease or other significant neurologic disease assessed to be a contributory cause to LARS symptoms. * Inability of patient to use TAI * Inability and unwillingness to give informed consent * Pregnancy or intention to become pregnant during the trial period