Chiropractic Therapy on the Upper Cervical Vertebra Can Alleviate Stomachache

Stomachache can be alleviated by chiropractic therapy on the upper cervical vertebrae.

Many people suffer from stomachache, and the way they experience the illness varies greatly.

People often complain of stomach pains. For example, people say that they feel heaviness in the stomach with a sense of feeling bloated after meals and that they have dull feeling in the stomach, a gripping pain in the stomach, an irritating feeling in the stomach, or a stinging feeling in the stomach. No other organ has as many kinds of complaints as the stomach.

To take for example the head - , people say they have a headache or feel fuzzy; for the teeth, people may have toothache, stinging feelings in their teeth, swollen feelings in their teeth, or aching pain in the tooth. It may be true that people are more sensitive to feelings in the stomach than those of other organs. Some even say that stomach is a “talkative organ.”

I believe that individually treating all symptoms of the stomach by means of symptomatic therapy is simply impractical. Instead we use chiropractic therapy to correct one area of the upper cervical vertebrae to treat all the symptoms.

The therapy corrects the flow of the nervous system, and improves the accuracy of information transfer from the stomach to the brain. Once the brain has been provided with all the necessary instructions, it is able to concentrate on comprehensively coping with disorders that occur in the stomach. What is meant by comprehensive here is that the therapy improves a series of functions, such as salivation, digestion and absorption, and excretion, and the improvement will eventually alleviate bad stomach, stomach discomfort, and inflammation of the gastric mucosa.

While no direct approach is used to teat gastric disease, chiropractic therapy can improve the functions of the whole body by makes adjustment on one area of the upper cervical vertebrae. This curing mechanism is characteristic to causal treatment.

My many years of clinical experience suggest that a number of patients suffer from stomach discomfort as a secondary problem even though they do not actually have any problem in the stomach.

The source of this symptom is displacement of the diaphragm. This causes stimulation or pressure on the stomach just below the diaphragm, resulting in stomach symptoms. About half of the patients at our clinic who complain of gastric pain do suffer from this illness. In such cases, the condition is relatively mild and it only takes a short time to cure the illness as severe injury to gastric cells or gastric mucosae is rare.

There was a classic case with a hidden cause where there was displacement of the diaphragm. The patient, 63-year old man, came to our clinic with complaint of backache in 1998. He also had gastric pain and had been taking Chinese medicine prescribed by a well-known Chinese medicine professional in Tokyo. This special Chinese medicine used to take the patient two hours to prepare and he had taken it everyday for seven years. However, after the second visit the symptom of gastric pain, which was not his primary complaint, was cured much earlier than his backache. His gastric pain was caused by displacement of the diaphragm.

The diaphragm is controlled by phrenic nerves, which originate in the fourth cervical vertebra and run toward the diaphragm. Because the diaphragm has the largest area of muscles in the body, displacement of the diaphragm easily induces stimulation of the stomach, and this often happens. Also, there are many cases of palpitation or arrhythmia, despite having a healthy heart, due to displacement of the diaphragm as a result of stimulation on the heart right above the diaphragm and abdominal aorta that runs from the heart and goes through the diaphragm.

The chiropractic therapy at our clinic is not aimed at directly correcting the alignment of the fourth cervical vertebra. Instead, we correct only one area of the upper cervical vertebrae to treat displacement of the diaphragm. This can be also applied to gastric disease when it is the primary problem.

Diaphragm displacement can cause stomachache by causing pressure on the stomach.
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