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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