Hand Therapy Indications, Characteristics,

and Precautions

1. Indications:
1) Painful diseases: Neurotic headache,
trigeminal neuralgia, toothache, angina
pectoris, chest pain, intercostal neuralgia,
neuralgia sciatica, and abdominal pain.
2) Chronic diseases: Bronchitis, peptic
stomach ulcer, chronic gastroenteritis,
diarrhea, diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, soft
tissue injury, chronic nephritis, hemiplegia,
arthritis, and muscular strain of the waist.
3) Functional diseases: Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, functional
disturbance of vegetative nervous system, intestinal paralysis, and stomach spasms.
4) Neurological diseases: Neurasthenia, spasm of facial muscles, facial palsy, and
neurotic deafness.
5) Inflammatory diseases: Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis, rhinitis, bronchitis,
periarthritis of shoulder, cholecystitis, nephritis, and arthritis.
6) Acute diseases: High fever with convulsions, acute angina pectoris, acute attack
of epilepsy, acute larygopharyngitis, acute conjunctivitis, and acute gastritis.
2. Characteristics:
1) Holistic principles in the treatment of disease are followed. This includes
treating internal diseases with external therapy and treating general diseases with local
therapy.
2) Hand therapy is a simple treatment with numerous indications, including
common internal diseases, surgical problems, and gynaecological, pediatric, and ENT
disorders.
3) This treatment is cheap, convenient and safe.
4) It can be used to treat diseases as well as improve the health of normal people.
5) It can be done by the patients themselves for early diagnosis and treatment.
6) It can produce good therapeutic results without harmful side effect.
7) The techniques of hand therapy can be widely popularized for broad application.
3. Precautions:
1) Care must be taken in treating pregnant women at early and later stages of
pregnancy.
2) It must be used with care in potential surgical conditions such as acute
appendicitis with indication of surgical intervention.
3) Hand therapy is prohibited for patients with necrotic, infectious, or pyogenic
skin lesions of the hand.

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