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digestive system
hiatal hernia
physical medicine

exercise


hydrotherapy

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gastroenteritis:
Scotch douche
heat on abdomen: before meals
hot fomentations: abdomen
heating trunk pack
• constitutional hydrotherapy


manipulation

hiatal hernia manipulation: pull stomach down using deep tissue drag, patient supine with head and hips flexed; have patient breath deeply, with each breath apply deeper pressure, after each third breath, manipulate toward the umbilicus with increasing force and an anchoring motion on the final maneuver (Failor, et al)
• gravity: use gravity to reduce
truss: after hernia reduced
• spine: check and adjust lower thoracics, lumbar, SI, and coccyx
massage: abdominal


electrical and oscillating


footnotes