Topical Ginger Treatment With a Compress or Patch for Osteoarthritis Symptoms

Topical Ginger Treatment With a Compress or Patch for Osteoarthritis Symptoms

AIM This article is a report of a study evaluating changes in health status before and after topical ginger treatment for adults with moderate to severe osteoarthritis. METHOD In 2011, 20 adults with chronic osteoarthritis were randomly assigned to one of two groups for 7 consecutive days of topical ginger treatment by trained nurses: Group 1 received a manually prepared ginger compress and G...

Ginger compress therapy for adults with osteoarthritis

AIM This paper is a report of a study to explicate the phenomenon of ginger compresses for people with osteoarthritis. BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis is claimed to be the leading cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability in Western society. Management ideally combines non-pharmacological strategies, including complementary therapies and pain-relieving medication. Ginger has been applied externa...

Topical and Regional Treatment for Osteoarthritis

The Distinction of Hot Herbal Compress, Hot Compress, and Topical Diclofenac as Myofascial Pain Syndrome Treatment

This randomized controlled trial aimed to investigate the distinctness after treatment among hot herbal compress, hot compress, and topical diclofenac. The registrants were equally divided into groups and received the different treatments including hot herbal compress, hot compress, and topical diclofenac group, which served as the control group. After treatment courses, Visual Analog Scale and...

To compress or not to compress ?

| For practical communications which transmit nite blocks of source data over noisy channels, we question the common practice to compress (C) the source and then to add redundancy for error control. Rather we exploit the redundancy of the non-compressed source (NC) at the channel decoder by source-controlled channel decoding. For a simple binary Markov source and a Rayleigh fading channel we si...