Digestive System
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Functions of Digestive System
The digestive system is vital and essential to maintaining life. Digestive system converts foods into the raw materials that build and fuel our body’ cells. Digestive system takes in food, breaks it down into nutrients molecules, and absorbs these nutrients molecules into the bloodstream to fuel our body, then rids the waste materials.
A range of mechanical and chemical stimuli provokes digestive activity. The function of digestive system often summarized in two words – digestion and absorption. To describe the process of digestive system more completely, there are six essential activities: ingestion, propulsion, mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation.
Organs Consists of Digestive System
Organs consists of digestive system can be separated into two main groups: alimentary canal, also called the gastrointestinal tract, is the continuous, muscular digestive tube that winds through the abdomen cavity and pelvis cavity and is open at both ends. The gastrointestinal tract includes mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
Other group is the accessory digestive that includes teeth, tongue, gallbladder, and a number of large digestive glands – the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas. The accessory digestive glands produce saliva, bile, and digestive enzymes – secretions that contribute to the break down of foodstuffs.
Digestive System Disorders
Digestive system disorders a person may suffer from such as Acid reflux, abdominal pain, dirrhea, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, hital hernia, regurgitation, difficulty swallowing, or bleeding from the digestive tract.
Besides the contributing factors that physical injury, infections, viruses, allergies and diseases could impair the normal functions of the digestive system, also the muscular problems such as the diaphragm muscle, intercostals muscle and many other muscles, fascia and soft tissues could cause the dysfunctions of the digestive system.
By treating the soft tissue problems may help normalize the functions of digestive system and relieve many of the discomfort symptoms that affect the digestive system you may experience.
Digestive Symptoms Treatment
PlaceToHeal is experienced in treating chronic digestive system symptoms listed in the section of Digestive Symptoms Relief. Treatment for digestive symptoms is gentle, natural and safe.
Treatment for digestive system symptoms is provided by experienced R.M.T with hands-on manual therapies that help to facilitate your body’s own natural healing ability and has had high success rates with long-term relief in digestive system symptoms.
PlacetoHeal uses individual, personalized treatment plans and processes to discover the underlying causes of digestive symptoms. Earlier treatment could minimize the discomfort of digestive symptoms and the potential complications or difficulties.
Digestive symptoms treatment with manual therapy include Visceral Manipulation, and Myofascial Release in Visceral, which are the techniques focus on relieve those sphincters of the digestive system and the supporting tissues in the abdomen cavity.
Massage Therapy, Myofasical Release, Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy, and Lymph Therapy are incorporate into the treatment enhance the effectiveness in relieve digestive symptoms.
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