If the patient tends to form adhesions readily, orthodox surgery is also a poor risk, because there is no way of being sure that surgery for adhesion removal will not cause even more adhesions. For these patients.we usually use a combined therapy of bloodless surgery, herbal colonic therapy and, in women, pelvic manipulative therapy, plus the various modalities that encourage circulation such as surging sine wave, diathermy, and the Magnatherm. With this type of therapy, these patients are usually greatly relieved of their previous distress. Although the treatment may need to be repeated occasionally, it is rare that a patient is not satisfied with its usefulness. Recently we are using the MicroLight 830 to help these conditions.
Preliminary results are encouraging.
Manipulation of the Lower Bowel M anual manipulation of the lower abdomen can often be of great use in treating constipation and colitis. It is one of the few methods I have found that may be of immediate value in ulcerative colitis. Because ulcerative colitis seems to depend greatly on the integrity of the nervous system, the manipulative work on the tissues that reflex to the solar plexus combined with gentle manipulative therapy over the colon itself has proven of great aid. This is not a cure, but it does aid in reducing the irritation and in reversing the adverse emotional effects on the large bowel that are so often present in these patients. Constipation can be caused by many problems, but the proper use of bloodless surgery can be a real help in revitalizing a poorly functioning colon.