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pain in the wrist helped by "brafy vac" therapy? sm - stuck on this one


Posted: Feb 17, 2010

A patient who has a rotator cuff repair on the right and then started having pain to the left wrist after surgery.  The pain was 10/10 but recently has been helped by "brafyvac" or "brafyfac"  therapy? 

Anybody know what that is?

Thanks.

Not even close to your s/l but..sm - kip

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maybe ActiPatch therapy ??

makes me think of brachytherapy - sgill

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maybe it's brachytherapy and he stuttered while saying it? I didn't find brachyvac therapy, though.

I thought of brachytherapy...sm - kip

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also but that's for prostate cancer and this was some type of therapy for wrist pain, if I read the post correctly.


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