That typically means arthritis patients whose pain interferes with daily activities and people whose pain isn't alleviated
by nonsurgical treatments like finger braces, splints, or anti-inflammatory medications such as Advil or Aleve.
Not exact matches
... [D] isclosure
by the [provider] to the patient of adequate clear information about the patient's diagnosis; the alternatives available to treat the patient's problem, including surgical and
nonsurgical management; the benefits and risks of each alternative, including nonintervention... and a frank explanation of those factors about which the medical profession, and the individual [provider] in particular, are uncertain and can not provide guarantees...
A trial of
nonsurgical measures (e.g., rest followed
by rehabilitation) is appropriate, especially for the young athlete with an acute injury or partial UCL tear.
By combining the talents of our surgeons with
nonsurgical specialists and researchers, we offer access to the latest innovative treatments in one of the most rapidly advancing fields of medicine.
The AAOM promotes Orthopaedic Medicine
by teaching doctors integrative diagnosis techniques and comprehensive / integrative
nonsurgical treatment methods including proliferant injections (prolotherapy), steroid injections, fluoroscopic spinal interventions, osteopathic manual medicine, therapeutic exercise and interventions with various pharmaceutical / nutriceutical / herbal / homeopathic based treatments.
Having spent so much time as a patient when he was a child — being bled
by lancet or
by leech, fed tinctures and bitter weeds, left to sweat it out alone in his bed or soaked in a special bath — he was perhaps too familiar with other,
nonsurgical branches of medicine, where recovery was often a guessing game.
Internal Medicine Physicians treat conditions
by using
nonsurgical approaches.