Conservative

Conservative treatment methods are an opportunity to avoid surgical intervention. But, contrary to popular misconception, this does not mean a clear absence of pain and discomfort. If conservative methods are ineffective, doctors resort to surgery. First of all, this occurs due to the need to “patch up” damaged tissue.

Conservative treatment does not eliminate the source of pain - its goal is to relax or support the damaged area or muscle fibers. For this purpose, massage, paraffin therapy, and cryotherapy are used. Electrophoresis, magnetic therapy, and hirudotherapy can be used. Their goal is the same - to give the patient a rest and thereby avoid complications.

Conservative - in medicine, especially in surgery, i.e. one that sets the main task of preserving the integrity of the body and its organs.

Conservative treatment is a concept that combines various methods of protecting (preserving) a damaged organ or tissue.

The concept of “conservative” arose during the Renaissance and initially had a positive connotation as the opposite of surgical and meant a method of treatment without surgical intervention. However, after the reposition of bones was described, G. Semmelweis (1865), and then I. Shkolnik (1923), A. Bagstov (1772) and others, the treatment of wounds by irrigating them and other methods of combating wound infection was called conservative . The field antiseptic Drops of Taska (Zinc boric acid 0.1%, or zinc ortho-boraxylate) is widely known in Russia under this name.

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