RT Journal
A1 TAYLOR J
T1 TReatment of occupation neuroses and neuritis in the arms
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD July 17
VO LIII
IS 3
SP 198
OP 200
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550030007002g
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550030007002g
AB In this brief paper is given personal experience in treating over forty cases of sensory and motor disabilities of the arms, the basis of which is usually a neuritis, mild or severe. Most prompt and thorough results are obtained by the personal attention of the physician, proceeding on the lines of:1. Constitutional regulation, uses of drugs, etc., adapted from the interpretations of Dr. Sajous.2. Relief of psychic hypertension or misdirection by educative persuasion. Relaxation is needed of the whole organism, as well as of the parts damaged. Economies in the expenditure of forces should be judiciously taught.3. Quieting of the irritated vasomotor subcenters and also improving their nutrition by influencing the reflex vasomotor reactions, through manipulation of the paravertebral tissues; to be achieved by : (a) Determining by touch the degree of irritation or exhaustion shown by tenderness, infiltration or alterations