21/11/2025
The Ileocecal valve sphincter function is to allow digested food materials to pass from the small intestine into your large intestine.
The ileocecal valve also blocks these waste materials from backing back up into your small intestine. It is intended to be a one-way valve, only opening up to allow processed foods to pass through.
If the practitioner notices that it’s rotating in counterclockwise direction, that means it’s blocked.
In such case, patient would complain abdominal pain or discomfort, particularly in the lower right quadrant.
Bloating or abdominal distension, often worse after meals. Changes in bowel habits, including alternating constipation and diarrhea. Excessive gas or flatulence & Nausea or occasional vomiting.
When the Duodenojejunal junction is blocked or if the practitioner find it’s rotating in anticlockwise direction, release it with Visceral Manipulation treatment.
In such case, the patient would experience Crampy abdominal pain that comes and goes. Loss of appetite, Constipation, Vomiting, Inability to have a bowel movement or pass gas & Swelling of the abdomen.
The sphincter of Oddi is a muscular valve in your digestive tract. It helps move bile and juices from your pancreas into your small intestine. If you find this rotating in anticlockwise direction it means dysfunction is present, in one type the sphincter of Oddi goes into spasm. It clamps shut and can’t relax. Other times it may be narrowed from past inflammation. Your digestive juices back up into your pancreas and into the bile ducts of your liver. This causes intense belly pain.
Another type of sphincter of Oddi dysfunction happens when the sphincter of Oddi becomes stiff and narrow.
This prevents digestive juices from entering your small intestine. Patient would complain severe stomach pain that comes and goes. The symptoms can feel similar to a gallbladder attack. You may have pain in your upper belly that seems to move, or spread, into your right shoulder. You may also have chest pain that feels like a heart attack. Further description of the sphincters continues in the comments⤵️
