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POEM (Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy) is rapidly becoming a valid option for surgical myotomy in achalasia patients. Several techniques to perform POEM are described, but all concentrate on the division of the circular muscle fibers in a proximal-to-distal fashion. Our aim is to present the distal-to-proximal, or the bottom-up technique using the Flush/Dual knife, which overcomes the disadvantages of the standard technique. A retrospective study on a prospectively maintained database was performed on all patients treated by POEM in our i