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[CRMRF] trial
The [CRMRF] trial (NCT05844189) tested 448 kHz capacitive resistive monopolar radiofrequency plus Thiele massage versus manual therapy alone in 44 women aged 18-30 with superficial dyspareunia; both groups improved, with modest added CRMRF benefit.
Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy, also called pool or water therapy, is physical therapy performed in water using buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, viscosity, and warmth; it traces to ancient baths and Warm Springs, with outcomes generally comparable to land-based exercise.
Auditory-verbal therapy
Auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) is a parent-coached early-intervention therapy that teaches children with hearing loss to develop listening and spoken language through hearing aids or cochlear implants, without lipreading.
Balneotherapy
Balneotherapy is a treatment in which patients bathe in natural mineral or thermal waters, or apply heated mineral muds, to manage chronic rheumatic and skin conditions.
Blood flow restriction training
Blood flow restriction training (BFRT, also called blood flow restriction exercise or KAATSU) applies an inflatable cuff to a limb during low-load exercise, producing muscle gains comparable to heavy lifting and making it valuable in rehabilitation.
Breathing Exercises
Breathing exercises (respiratory muscle training, pranayama, Buteyko, pursed lip and diaphragmatic breathing) are therapeutic exercises altering respiration rate, depth, and rhythm, used in COPD, asthma, and dysfunctional breathing.
Canes
Canes (walking sticks) are single- or multi-point mobility aids for balance and partial weight bearing. Fitted to the wrist crease with 20-30 degrees elbow flexion, held opposite the weak leg; 10% of US adults over 65 use one.
CAPER trial
CAPER trial (NCT06956664), Exercise Therapy After Caudal Epidural Steroid Injection, a Turkish three-arm randomized trial testing aerobic versus core-stabilization exercise added to physiotherapy after caudal epidural steroid injection for lumbar disc herniation.
Complex decongestive therapy
Complex decongestive therapy (CDT) is a multimodal conservative treatment for lymphedema combining manual lymph drainage, compression bandaging, skin care, exercise, and education, with an intensive phase followed by lifelong maintenance.
Compression therapy
Compression therapy is a medical treatment applying external pressure to the limbs through bandages, stockings, wraps, or pneumatic devices to improve venous return and lymph drainage.
Conservative Treatment
Conservative treatment (conservative management, conservative therapy) is non-surgical care of a condition using exercise, physical therapy, medication, bracing, and injections, usually tried before surgery; comparative trials show similar function to surgery for many musculoskeletal conditions.
Continuous passive motion
Continuous passive motion (CPM) is a rehabilitation therapy in which a motorized machine moves a joint through a preset arc without muscular effort, used after joint surgery.
Crutches
Crutches are ambulation aids that shift body weight from the legs to the arms and torso, used after lower-limb injury or surgery. Main types are axillary, forearm (Lofstrand), and platform; proper fitting prevents crutch palsy and other injuries.
Early Ambulation
Early ambulation (early mobilization, early mobility) is the practice of getting patients walking or out of bed sooner than usual, after surgery, in the ICU, after stroke, and after delivery; MeSH-defined since 1976, with trial evidence on weakness, length of stay, and function.
Eccentric training
Eccentric training is a resistance training method in which muscles actively lengthen under load, building strength and muscle and rehabilitating tendon injuries such as Achilles tendinopathy.
Eccentric viewing
Eccentric viewing, also called eccentric fixation, is a low vision rehabilitation technique in which people with central vision loss learn to use undamaged paracentral retina instead of the fovea.
Exercise Therapy
Exercise therapy: prescribed physical activity regimens (exercise prescription, remedial exercise) to restore musculoskeletal function or reduce pain. Moderate-certainty evidence supports it for chronic low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, depression, and stroke rehabilitation.
Expiratory muscle strength training
Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) is a rehabilitation technique in which patients exhale against a handheld pressure device to strengthen cough, swallowing, and breathing muscles.
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is a noninvasive treatment that delivers acoustic shock waves into injured musculoskeletal tissue, developed from kidney stone lithotripsy and used for plantar fasciopathy, tendinopathies, and nonunions.
Gait training
Gait training is a rehabilitation therapy using repetitive walking practice, assistive devices, or robotic aids to improve walking after stroke, spinal cord injury, and other impairments.
Gustav Zander
Gustav Zander (1835–1920) was a Swedish physician who developed mechanotherapy, treating disease and injury with adjustable exercise machines, and opened his first institute in Stockholm in the 1860s.
Howard A. Rusk
Howard A. Rusk was an American physician known as the father of rehabilitation medicine, which he developed in World War II and at New York University.
Ischemic compression
Ischemic compression is a manual therapy technique in which sustained pressure is applied to myofascial trigger points to reduce pain, raise pressure pain threshold, and improve range of motion.
Joint mobilization
Joint mobilization is a manual therapy technique in which a clinician applies graded passive movements to a joint to reduce pain and improve range of motion.
Language Therapy
Language therapy is rehabilitation for language disorders and training for children's language development disorders, distinct from speech therapy. Evidence covers DLD gains (SMD 0.46 expressive), caregiver-mediated programs, and aphasia treatment.
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound
Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is a physical therapy method applying weak pulsed ultrasound waves through the skin over a fracture to stimulate tissue repair, FDA-approved in 1994.
Low-intensity vibration therapy
Low-intensity vibration therapy is a physical therapy method that applies gentle vertical vibrations, typically 30 Hz below 1g for 10 to 20 minutes daily, to a standing person to treat osteoporosis.
Manual therapy
Manual therapy is a hands-on clinical treatment applying mechanical force to joints, muscles, or nerves through manipulation, mobilization, and stretching, delivered by physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths.
Mirror therapy
Mirror therapy is a rehabilitation technique in which a mirror reflects movements of an unaffected limb, developed for phantom limb pain in 1996 and extended to stroke rehabilitation.
MTSS trial (NCT05637476)
MTSS trial NCT05637476, a Cairo University single-blind randomized trial, tested functional hip abductor strength training plus physical therapy in 40 recreational runners with medial tibial stress syndrome, finding reduced knee valgus and pelvic drop versus physical therapy alone over 8 weeks.