The shooting pains may be lessened by deep, slow massage in the tracks of the nerves affected.

If, as generally happens, there are also regions of defective sensation, these should receive after the general manipulation active, rapid circular friction, and, perhaps, experimentally, open-hand slapping.

As constipation is one of the troublesome features, the abdomen should have particular attention, and an unusual amount of time be given to manipulations of the colon, as described in the chapter on massage.

A full hour's rest in bed, preferably in a darkened room, must follow the rubbing.
A schedule for the day on about the lines of the "partial rest" schedule, as described on a previous page, should be followed.

A prolonged warm bath, with cool sponging after, if the latter be well borne, is useful in lessening pains and nervous irritability,--and this may begin the day or be used at any convenient hour.
At an hour as far from the massage as possible lessons in co-ordinate movements are given, after a week or ten days of massage has prepared the muscles, and baths and a quiet life have steadied the nerves.