English
Noun
en-noun|sg=conservative treatment
- medicine A treatment, that doesn't include any operation or intervention.
#*2000, G. Puddu et al., "Achilles Tendon Injuries" in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, ISBN 0632037857, page 200:
#:"Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports."
#*2006, J. Franke, "Intramedullary Treatment of Humeral Shaft Fractures" in Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications, ISBN 3540253491, page 179:
#:"conservative treatment still competes with the operative approach to a much greater degree than is the case for fractures of the long bones of the lower extremity."
#*2007, Thomas E. Hyde and Marianne S. Gengenbach, Conservative Management of Sports Injuries, ISBN 0763732524, page 597:
#:"Conservative treatment could also include short-arm casting with the fingers and thumb free for 2-6 weeks. "
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