Actinotherapy and Diathermy for the Student

Effectiveness Of Continuous Versus Pulsed Short-Wave Diathermy In The Management Of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomised Pilot Study

Background: Short-wave diathermy (SWD) is an electrotherapeutic modality used in the conservative treatment of knee osteoarthritis (KOA).  Electromagnetic radiation delivered in continuous (cSWD) or pulse (pSWD) mode provides a deep heating effect on tissues.  There is no consensus on outcomes of treatment with cSWD versus pSWD in KOA. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of cSWD ve...

O-35: How Can You Decrease the Complicationof Ovarian Diathermy in Polycystic OvarianSyndrome

Pulsed Shortwave Diathermy and Prolonged Long-Duration Stretching Increase Dorsiflexion Range of Motion More Than Identical Stretching Without Diathermy.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of 3 treatments on ankle dorsiflexion range of motion: prolonged long-duration stretching, pulsed shortwave diathermy followed by stretching, and pulsed shortwave diathermy, stretching, and ice combined. DESIGN AND SETTING: A 2 x 5 x 15 repeated-measures (on 2 factors) design guided this study. Range-of-motion change in triceps surae flexibility was the depende...

Hodgkin's lymphoma -- prognosis as related to histology, clinical stage and treatment.

The rapid advances in modern chemotherapy and actinotherapy of Hodgkin's lymphoma and an improvement in its diagnosis have ushered in numerous novel procedures. This is a preliminary analysis of the results of treatment of 117 patients with actinotherapy, polychemotherapy, consisting of a chemotherapeutic four-combination as substitution for MOPP and a combined actino-chemotherapy. Actinotherap...

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases International Workship in Artificial Finger Joints

Scott, M.C.S.P., Dip.T.P. Sixth Edition. (Pp. 372; figs. 205. 40s). London: Bailli6re, Tindall & Cassell, 1969. THIS book laid out in excellent print is divided into three main sections, covering electrotherapy (direct and low frequency currents), high frequency currents, actinotherapy and other radiations. Each section progresses naturally towards the next sequence, and the whole work is punct...