Palpatory Anatomy of the Belly: Digestive System

This one-day training focuses on the palpatory experience of the entire digestive system. Learn to palpate all of the abdominal organs related to digestion. Differentiate the fascial architecture that suspends and supports these organs. Intelligently discuss normal digestion, and feel how digestive tissues change when pathology is present.

The human digestive system creates energy from our food. It is a vastly complicated system involving all of the body's metabolic processes. This class teaches you how to feel and understand the digestive system like never before.

Palpatory Anatomy of the Belly: Digestive System students learn to…

• Palpate mouth, esophagus, and trachea
• Palpate stomach and duodenum
• Palpate liver and gallbladder
• Palpate ubiquity of the small intestine and mesentery
• Palpate large intestine and mesocolon
• Understand the role of the enteric nervous system in digestion
• Understand digestive system signals in normal physiology

Instructor: Marty Ryan, LMP 
Course length: 1 day
CE hours: 8 hours

Palpatory Anatomy of the Belly: Digestive System can be taken alone or paired with Applications to the Digestive System.