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tx
nervous system
multiple sclerosis
physical medicine

exercise

• aerobic exercise: mild, best done in open air in cool of morning or evening
• Frenkel exercises: for ataxia


hydrotherapy

• ice: crushed, wrapped in wet towels applied to spastic muscles for 10 min.,followed by exercise
• cold (50º F) emmersion of spastic extremity for 10 min. followed by exercise
• fever treatments: to slow down progress of disease (Thrash, 1981, p. 120), patients may be aggrevated by heat
• cold baths: to prevent muscular atrophy (Thrash, 1981, p. 120)
• colonics
• constitutional hydrotherapy


manipulation

• massage gentle
• Spondylotherapy: concussion of T10, T11 to increase circulation to spinal cord
• spine: check and align atlas, axis, only adjust atlas 2-3 times, check parasympath. (cervicals, sacrum)


electrical and oscillating

• TENS: for analgesia


footnotes