title: [Physical therapy in gastroenterology].
abstract: During the last 30 years physiotherapy increased in size and value, is integrated into nearly all subjects of medicine and has its justification and significance like pharmacotherapy. The use of physiotherapy in gastroenterological diseases has in most cases empirical character, though increasingly objectifiable modes of action are proved. Of the massage treatment predominantly the segmental massage, the massages of the connective tissue and the treatment of the colon are therapeutically effective in gastroenterology. Electrotherapeutically, ultrasound and infrared may be used. The field of therapy for short-wave and exciting current is narrowed in gastroenterological diseases. Good results of treatment are obtained with peloid packs, which, however, above all are yielded in the health-resort. In chronic gastroenterological diseases more attention should be paid to kinetotherapy and it should more frequently be used. It not anyway acts only on the locomotor system, but always on the general organism, especially on the vegetative functional system and should be prescribed particularly in rehabilitation after a long stay in sick-bed. In its variety the group therapy concerns the general organism physically and psychically and has above all a vegetative regulation effect.
mesh_terms: D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000379:methods; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008405:Massage / Q000379:methods; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Physiotherapie in der Gastroenterologie.