Thus it is readily seen that osteopathic treatment is very applicable
to ovarian displacement unless the indications are surgical. A more
or less constant burning or sharp pain in the ovarian region, with
probably some feeling of weight, profuse and painful menstruation,
depression, irritability, etc., are =diagnostic=. However, a local
examination will reveal the status of the ovarian position and
congestion.
The same =treatment= as in other organ prolapse is indicated: toning
weakened tissues, relieving congestions, replacing organ, with careful
attention to the bowels and the general health. There are no tissue
disorders of any part of the body wherein osteopathy is more thoroughly
indicated and the results more generally satisfactory than in prolapse.
And especially should it be remembered that in prolapse of various
organs many vague intestinal and pelvic disorders and even ureteral and
bladder disturbances may be traced to bowel dislocations and excessive
kidney mobility in which osteopathic measures are often successful.
=Conclusion.=—The purpose of this section on Prolapsed Organs has been
to supplement the various articles on Dilatation of the Stomach,
Movable Kidney, etc., with an outline that may include relaxation of
a part or of the whole of the abdominal viscera. The physician is all
too prone to simply note the most offending or conspicuously disturbed
organ instead of carefully analyzing all the features, great and
trivial, that may be either apparent or marked. A general relaxation
of the abdominal and pelvic organs may be found, and a nearly complete
restoration take place under treatment, but still a lacerated perineum
may have to be repaired before a cure is completed. Or it may be in
a general abdominal ptosis that a floating kidney will resist all
measures for restoration, short of surgery, and before much improvement
can be obtained the kidney will have to be stitched into place. An
enlarged liver may crowd the kidney out of place or a transverse colon
may prolapse and drag on contiguous tissues and still the annoying
symptoms be referred elsewhere. Then the primal point of general
relaxation may not be in one organ, but there may be a simultaneous
displacement of several.
The thorax itself may be distorted from various diseases so that the
chest is narrowed, the diaphragm displaced with consequent descension
of the abdominal organs, and from the latter a displacement of the
pelvic.
“Far down displacement, marked changes of form, and real
disfigurements of the stomach are found in some cases of kyphosis and
scolio-kyphosis.”[46] The osteopath will not only find this true in
some cases, but in many cases, although he recognizes as causative
factors injuries to the spine causing curvatures and postural defects
as prolific sources of abdominal relaxation.
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