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A FOLLOW-UP STUDY, WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMARY OF THE SEDIMENTATION RATE OF ERYTHROCYTES IN TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE CASES OF ARTHRITIS

JEROME V. TREUSCH, M.D.; FRANK H. KRUSEN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(2):231-238.

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In the general therapeutic program outlined for the patient who has arthritis physical therapy has come to play one of the central roles. The physical therapeutic measures, considering the usual chronicity of the types of arthritis treated, must be applied persistently and patiently over a long period. It can be fairly stated that most likely in every case of chronic arthritis home treatment with physical measures finds a place, either as a less elaborate continuation of the beneficial measures carried out in a physical therapy department by trained personnel or as a primary home regimen of simple physical measures. Because of the chronicity of the more common types of arthritis and because the average patient with the chronic form of arthritis is unable financially to continue with indefinite institutional treatment, an organized plan was developed at the Mayo Clinic for encouraging arthritic patients to carry out simple physical therapeutic measures . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Section on Physical Therapy (Dr. Krusen), the Mayo Clinic.

Footnotes
Fellow in Medicine, the Mayo Foundation.

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