A woman’s laborious search uncovered the probable cause of her searing abdominal pain. Getting a doctor to help was much harder.
ADAmong the studies she unearthed was a 1926 report by Philadelphia surgeon John Carnett, who devised a simple bedside test to help pinpoint the location of chronic abdominal pain. Not infrequently, unexplained abdominal pain is attributed to a psychological disorder. In people with abdominal wall pain, the pain increases; for those with other types of pain, it typically decreases. After several visits, Marx underwent a TAP block, an injection that anesthetizes the anterior abdominal wall. “I’ve done a lot of work on the abdominal wall so I was a little skeptical.
Source: Washington Post February 20, 2021 15:00 UTC
