ileoceccal valve

What’s the first thing you think about when it comes to Abdominal Pain?

It should be your ileoceccal valve.  Every year 300,000 people have surgery for appendicitis. That’s a staggering number and it definitely is a medical emergency when present. Symptoms of appendicitis often includes nausea, vomiting, and a fever. The test that is diagnostic is an elevated white blood cell count indicating infection. They usually do a CAT scan as well to confirm. But what do you do when you go to the hospital and all the tests come back negative? Opt for exploratory surgery?

What else could be the cause?

A possibility is the ileoceccal valve. It’s the connection between your small intestines and the large intestines and located in the same spot as the appendix. It’s like a check valve that prevents the contents of the large intestines from going back into the small intestines. You wouldn’t want that to happen because you’d be re-absorbing your own waste.

This valve opens and closes to allow passage of the toxins, but sometimes it can get stuck open or stuck closed. A pinched nerve from the lower back could possibly be the problem.

Symptoms of Ileoceccal valve

Some of the symptoms include abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, bad breath, low back pain, and even right shoulder pain.

How do we know this is the problem?

When all the other tests come back negative we can use muscle testing with the patient touching over the area of the Ileoceccal valve and look to see what happens.

How do we treat it?

A combination of chiropractic adjustments and acupuncture points helped the body to heal itself in a very short amount of time.

Testimonial

This patient had been having abdominal pain for the past two months! Her doctors did all the routine blood work and even a couple of CAT scans. You have to wonder what was going through their minds as removing the appendix did not get rid of her abdominal pain. Watch her video here

Ileoceccal valve

Chiropractor Near Me

Englewood Chiropractor Robert Ebeling, DC PC of A-Just-A-Ble Chiropractic Center
3333 S. Bannock St #235
Englewood, CO 80110
(303) 377-1755