Therapeutic Methods

Therapy is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. In the medical field it is synonymous with the word "treatment". Among psychologists the term may refer specifically to psychotherapy or "talk therapy". Preventive therapy or prophylactic therapy is a treatment that is intended to prevent a medical condition from occurring. For example, many vaccines prevent infectious diseases. An abortive therapy is a treatment that is intended to stop a medical condition from progressing any further. A medication taken at the earliest signs of a disease, such as at the very symptoms of a migraine headache, is an abortive therapy. A supportive therapy is one that does not treat or improve the underlying condition, but instead increases the patient's comfort. Supportive treatment may be used in palliative care. Overtreatment is an overutilization, a treatment that is unnecessary or disproportionate to the situation. For example, the treatment of a condition that causes no symptoms and will go away on its own is overtreatment. Similarly, extensive treatment for a condition that could be remedied with very limited treatment is overtreatment. Overtreatment may be caused by overdiagnosis, the identification of harmless abnormalities.

1. RADIOTHERAPY

1.1 Biophysical Basis of Radiotherapy

1.2 Fundamental Principles of Radiotherapy

1.3 Methodology of Radiotherapy

2. ULTRASOUND THERAPY

3. ELECTRO THERAPY

3.1 Classification of Electrotherapeutic currents

3.2 Effects of Electrotherapy

3.3 Contraindications for Electrotherapy

3.4 Electro-Diagnostics

4. MAGNETO THERAPY

4.1 Physical background of magneto therapy

4.2 Therapeutic effects of magneto therapy

5. LASER THERAPY