Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2019)
Case study
A 70 years old man has RA (rheumatoid arthritis) since 20
years with hands joints pain with deformity and also chronic
LBP (low back pain) . He refers to your PT- centre to relieve
these pains.
- You have decided after the completed assessment to use
the Paraffin treatment for his hands (Dip-immersion method)
and SWD (short wave diathermy; capacitive method) for his
LBP
- Describe the application methods and discuss the contra
indications for these therapy methods.