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Abdominal pain. Abdominal pain can be characterized by the region it affects. Abdominal pain, also known as a stomach ache, is a symptom associated with both non-serious and serious medical issues. Since the abdomen contains most of the body's vital organs, it can be an indicator of a wide variety of diseases.
Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES) is a nerve entrapment condition that causes chronic pain of the abdominal wall. [1] It occurs when nerve endings of the lower thoracic intercostal nerves (7–12) are 'entrapped' in abdominal muscles, causing a severe localized nerve (neuropathic) pain that is usually experienced at the front of the abdomen.
Round ligament pain (RLP) is pain associated with the round ligament of the uterus, usually during pregnancy. RLP is one of the most common discomforts of pregnancy [1] and usually starts at the second trimester of gestation and continues until delivery. [citation needed] It usually resolves completely after delivery although cases of ...
Stand tall with feet shoulder-width apart. Place both hands behind your head with the elbows bent out to the sides. Bend your right knee and bring it up to meet your left elbow, twisting at the ...
Navel. The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus; pl.: umbilici or umbilicuses; commonly known as the belly button or tummy button) is a protruding, flat, or hollowed area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. [1] All placental mammals have a navel, although it is generally more conspicuous in humans.
Children with umbilical hernias, Sierra Leone (West Africa), 1967. An umbilical hernia is a health condition where the abdominal wall behind the navel is damaged. It may cause the navel to bulge outwards—the bulge consisting of abdominal fat from the greater omentum or occasionally parts of the small intestine.
Rovsing's sign is pain in the RLQ (near the appendix) experienced when the LLQ is palpated. Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), [1] is a sign of appendicitis. If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to ...
McBurney's point is named after American surgeon Charles McBurney (1845–1913). [1] [6] McBurney himself did not locate his point in a precise way in his original article.The seat of greatest pain, determined by the pressure of one finger, has been very exactly between an inch and a half and two inches from the anterior spinous process of the ilium on a straight line drawn from that process ...