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tx
reproductive system
epididymitis
physical medicine
exercise
hydrotherapy
fever treatments (Thrash, 1981, p. 111)
short cold baths (Thrash, 1981, p. 41)
manipulation
check SI joints/pelvic obliquity: adjust and then use deep pelvic psoas massage to release psoas, this is very useful if swelling of testicle present, practitioner will find an area on psoas that refers "same pulling sensation" to epidydimis (Kennedy)
Chapman's reflex: check and treat just below attachment of Poupart's ligam. along upper edge of body and ramus of the pubic bone to a point near the symphysis, then check and treat tip of TPL2
electrical and oscillating
diathermy: see orchitis
Galvanism: acute : use (+) with cotton soaked in 2% MgSO4 around affected testicle, (-) pad on sacrum, 5-10 mA for 15 min. daily; chronic cotton soaked in 2% KI (-) pole to testicle 1-3 mA for 5 min. (Johnson, 1946, p. 517)
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