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musculoskeletal system
osteoarthritis
physical medicine

exercise

• see rheumatoid arthritis
• water exercises: see water exercises for specific body area


hydrotherapy

• moist heat: to affected joints, 1-2 hrs./day (at home can use wet towel folded covered with plastic, then heating pad on top, don't let heating pad get wet)
• heating compresses
• constitutional hydrotherapy: for chronic


manipulation

• spine: restore motion to hypomobile segments.
• joints: gently mobilize into "glide" motion of artic surfaces.
• Heberdens, Bouchards nodes check and align C6, C7


electrical and oscillating

• diathermy
• TENS: for analgesia


footnotes