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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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