Biomedical subjects

S Sadil

Publications and source records attributed to S Sadil.

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PubMed1994

[Active and passive exercise therapy].

Therapeutic exercise has a central role within physiatry and physiotherapy. Contrary to other forms of treatment, the patient does not passively absorb energy (i. e. electricity or heat) but has to supply the energy him/herself. Exercise therapy is the only causal therapy in physical medicine and it can be dosed such that it is almost always applicable. Particularly about the latter point there is much confusion: Measures of positioning like in Guthrie-Smith's apparatus equally belong to therapeutic exercise as sequential therapy with power machines. Thus many patients are not submitted to physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise in particular, which are admittedly based on empiricism rather than scientific evaluation. This review attempts to provide an overview of the various methods of exercise therapy--incomplete and prone to the authors own preferences.

Exercise Therapy↗

PubMed1994

[Electrotherapy].

Physical therapy offers various modalities of treating back pain, one of them is electrotherapy. Besides the long known, low-frequency currents (galvanization, iontophoresis, impulse galvanization, diadynamic currents, TENS), medium-frequency currents (interference current) are increasingly applied today, as they cause patients to a far lesser degree to experience the often unpleasant "sensation of current". In chronic pain, short and microwave treatment (high frequency), which are to be counted among the thermal therapies, have again and again proved to be beneficial.

Electric Stimulation Therapy↗

PubMed1994

[Exercise therapy].

Therapeutic exercise has a central role within physiatry. Contrary to other forms of treatment, the patient does not passively absorb energy (i.e. electricity or heat) but has to supply the energy him/herself. Exercise therapy is the only causal therapy in physical medicine and it can be dosed such that it is almost always applicable. Particularly about the latter point there is much confusion: Measures of positioning like in Guthrie-Smith's apparatus equally belong to therapeutic exercise as sequential therapy with power machines. Thus many patients are not submitted to physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise in particular, which are admittedly based on empiricism rather than scientific evaluation. This review attempts to provide an overview of the various methods of exercise therapy--incomplete and prone to the authors own preferences.

Exercise Therapy↗