Resolving a Small Bowel Obstruction
By Jackie
A small bowel obstruction can impact a victim’s life in dramatic ways. Katrina, a former CPT patient who struggled with numerous bowel obstructions, told us, “It’s hard to explain the pain unless you have had it. You get a lot of abdominal swelling and localized pain in certain spots. The swelling gets really bad and your clothes don’t fit. At night, your body throbs. It just gets to the point where it never goes away and the pain overrides your thoughts. You can’t even walk properly because you are in so much pain and you feel your body drawing up.” Other patients have reported throwing-up after eating and even passing-out. Many sufferers can only drink liquids because no solids can get through.
As the bowels slowly cinch closed, the helpless victim has very few options. Although a medical facility can place a tube down the nose to remove gas and fluids, the only conventional treatment option to remove the blockage is surgery. Unfortunately, surgery can cause more adhesions to grow and patients find themselves with yet another bowel obstruction. It quickly becomes an awful cycle of obstruction-surgery-obstruction.
Katrina’s first bowel obstruction occurred after she had a partial hysterectomy. Doctors performed a follow-up surgery when she continued to experience pain and found she had a partial bowel obstruction. Over the next 14 years, Katrina had nine subsequent surgeries for bowel obstructions. She knew she didn’t want to continue on this path and eventually came to our clinic.
CPT therapists are experts in treating adhesions and immediately set to work to break-apart the bowel obstruction. Katrina noticed changes right away and was able to have normal bowel movements by the end of her intensive week of treatment. When she returned home, she reported that energy was still increasing.
A small bowel obstruction can quickly become a life-threatening problem. If the bowel closes completely, emergency surgery is required. If you feel you have the onset of a small bowel obstruction, please contact us immediately. CPT therapists can design a program to relieve the obstruction and symptoms associated with the blockage. Please visit our bowel obstruction page to learn more about our treatment for this serious condition.
