**7.5 Hydrotherapy**

There is some indication that by maintaining activity levels, hospitalizations are not as necessary.

It costs a lot of money and is not widely available (**Figure 7**) [39].

## **7.6 Thermotherapy**

Apart from temporary symptom relief, using heat and ice packs, using cryotherapy, or taking faradic baths does not have any substantial advantages.

**Figure 7.** *Hydrotherapy [40].*

#### **Figure 8.** *Thermotherapy, paraffin wax [42].*

Exercises and paraffin wax baths offer positive short-term effects for arthritic hands (**Figure 8**) [33, 41].
