Apply general massage. Follow with passive flexions and extensions, rotations and pressings. Finally give percussion of the back, if the patient's strength permits.

The first treatments should last from twenty to thirty-five minutes, gradually increasing to an hour at the end of the first week. Daily treatments are necessary.

Under this heading come most of the affections or rather conditions treated by general massage; for instance, when a patient is convalescent after fevers (typhoid, scarlatina), after operations, when the body is emaciated, in many conditions of nervous disorders, and in general when we propose the treatment as a tonic instead of outdoor exercise.