Hand therapy indications, characteristics, and precautions

1. Indications:
1) Painful diseases: Neurotic headache, Trigeminal Neuralgia, toothache, angina pectoris, chest pain, intercostal neuralgia, Sciatica, and abdominal pain.
2) Chronic diseases: Bronchitis, Peptic Ulcer, chronic gastroenteritis, diarrhea, Diabetes, rheumatism, soft tissue injury, Chronic Nephritis, hemiplegia, arthritis, and muscular strain of the waist.
3) Functional diseases: Irregular Menstruation, Dysmenorrhea, functional disturbance of vegetative nervous system, intestinal paralysis, and stomach spasms.
4) Neurological diseases: Neurasthenia, spasm of facial muscles, facial palsy, and neurotic deafness.
5) Inflammatory diseases: Chroniuc Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, stomatitis, Chroniuc Rhinitis, Chroniuc Bronchitis, periarthritis of shoulder, cholecystitis, nephritis, and arthritis.
6) Acute diseases: High fever with convulsions, acute angina pectoris, acute attack of epilepsy, acute larygopharyngitis, acute conjunctivitis, and acute gastritis.

2. Characteristics:
1) Holistic principles in the treatment of disease are followed. This includes treating internal diseases with external therapy and treating general diseases with local therapy.
2) Hand therapy is a simple treatment with numerous indications, including common internal diseases, surgical problems, and gynaecological, pediatric, and ENT disorders.
3) This treatment is cheap, convenient and safe.
4) It can be used to treat diseases as well as improve the health of normal people.
5) It can be done by the patients themselves for early diagnosis and treatment.
6) It can produce good therapeutic results without harmful side effect.
7) The techniques of hand therapy can be widely popularized for broad application.

3. Precautions:
1) Care must be taken in treating pregnant women at early and later stages of pregnancy.
2) It must be used with care in potential surgical conditions such as acute appendicitis with indication of surgical intervention.
3) Hand therapy is prohibited for patients with necrotic, infectious, or pyogenic skin lesions of the hand.