Please review the following questions to pre-assess your knowledge of ‘OMT treatment for gastritis.’ Once you have completed this pre-assessment review, please continue this module by viewing the instructional video at the bottom of this page.
A patient diagnosed with gastritis will have somatic dysfunctions in the following area if they have a viscerosomatic reflex response:
- C7-T3 on the left
- C7-T8 on the right
- T5-9 on the left
- T10-L1 bilaterally
- L3-S2 on the right
In treating viscero-somatic reflexes the physician can:
- Balance the areas of somatic dysfunctions back to symmetry
- Use inhibitory or excitatory techniques
- Choose from a variety of OMM techniques
- Treat the areas of viscero-somatic reflexes only, or choose also to treat other related areas
- All of the above are correct
Other areas to look at for viscero-somatic reflexes affecting the stomach include:
- C2, because a somatic dysfunction at this level may affect the vagus nerve.
- T1, because a somatic dysfunction at this level may affect the vagus nerve.
- S2, because a somatic dysfunction at this level may affect the iliohypogastric nerve.
- Ribs 3-5, because a somatic dysfunction at this level may affect the phrenic nerve.
- Ribs 11 and 12, because a somatic dysfunction at this level may affect the quadratus lumborum.