[Value of physical methods in therapy].

Abstract

Although the possibilities of physical methods and the active principles of physical medicine can only used to a very modest and small extent in the treatment of lymphatic edemas, they are nevertheless some of the few approaches to helping patients with such disorders effectively. As in so many chronic diseases, we must first of all restrict ourselves to assiduous and consistent control of functional disorders in order to improve them and perhaps occasionally eliminate them in mild cases. The active principle is the control of function!