A 17 year old football player came to me after having a hip surgery for a torn labrum. Since the surgery he wasn’t hungry and said it felt weird in his stomach. Any food he did manage to get down, he would vomit back up.
This went on for weeks before they came in.
I was expecting some type of infection in the stomach/GI tract since I find it very common after surgical procedures. Many people pick up bacteria from the hospital that needs to be cleared out.
Or, I expected to find some type of residual toxins from the anesthesia bothering his stomach.
But I didn’t find any of that.
What I found was a hiatal hernia. This is where the stomach pushes up into the esophagus. Or the valve between the stomach and esophagus gets stuck and doesn’t function correctly.
I adjusted this valve (called the cardiac sphincter) and sent him on his way.
A few days later I was updated that he was perfectly back to normal. Eating like a horse again.
He told his mom, “I’m pretty sure he fixed me.”
A few days later they were talking with a mutual friend, who is a nurse, explaining what had happened and she thought maybe they had the intubation tube pressure turned up too high and it somehow got down to the stomach and irritated the valve.
I don’t know. Maybe….
All I know is that I am grateful for the power and accuracy of Applied Kinesiology in finding problems. Without it, this young kid would go on having trouble with his stomach, losing weight and potentially not having a good senior football season.
He would have gone from doctor to doctor. Seeing GI specialists, having all kinds of scans and tests that would have found nothing.
NOTE: I’m not against medical doctors. I refer to and work closely with one. However, in this scenario it wouldn’t have been in their wheelhouse.
I went into that visit thinking one thing, but the testing guided me in the correct direction.
Like I tell patients all the time. Applied Kinesiology isn’t about guessing, or trial and error. It’s about using challenges and biofeedback to figure out exactly what is going on.