Does the digestive disorders affect the location of aorta beat around navel?
You might have experienced this. If you lie on your back on a flat surface and place your finger or thumb right over navel (men or women), and press softly down, you'd feel the beating just like heartbeats. I checked it with around 10 people and mostly it was right at the place of navel (i.e. vertically down to navel) or varied around 1 inch horizontally.
Now the question is here: If we suffer from any digestion related disease especially constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, does the location of of the beat we feel is affected? I'm asking this because many Indians and Indian blogs say this. They also say that the location should be almost vertically down to navel if you don't want to suffer from the diseases mentioned above. How much true it is?
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During my last course called "Physical Examination of the Abdomen" (at medical school), we learned to palpate the abdominal aorta, which can be easily palpated in +/- lean patients.
This book (freely available here www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK350/) "Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations. 3rd edition" gives you a description on how to palpate the abdominal aorta and listen to possible bruits:
The abdominal aorta is an upper abdominal, retroperitoneal structure
which is best palpated by applying firm pressure with the flattened
fingers of both hands to indent the epigastrium toward the vertebral
column. For this examination, it is essential that the subject's
abdominal muscles be completely relaxed; such relaxation can be
encouraged by having the subject flex the hips and by providing a
pillow to support the head.
Here a figure from the book:
The abdominal aorta is retroperitonal so it is possible that some bowel distension or feces impaction (which can occur in IBS) might influence the palpation but there is no direct correlation between IBS and the impossibility to palpate the abdominal aorta. Factors that for sure influence the palpation are obesity and massive abdominal musculature.
Finally (in contrast to what has been suggested in a previous answer), I have never heard about "palpating the celiac artery" and I don't think it is possible to really palpate (and be precise enough to say it is the celiac artery) it through all the organs which surround it (see image below, some parts of the liver have been removed to be able to see the artery)
Sources: Figure 2: wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celiac_artery
Sounds like voodoo to me.
There is large artery, called the celiac artery, that goes right down the center of the body. Undoubtedly this is what you would feel pulsing if you were to press on your navel. Where exactly you might feel a pulse has more to do with how much muscle and fat you have, than any health condition.
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