conservative treatment

Noun

conservative treatment (plural conservative treatments)

1. A treatment that does not include any operation or intervention.
   • Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.2000, G. Puddu et al., “Achilles Tendon Injuries”, in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200
   • For the treatment of humeral shaft fractures, 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.2006, J. Franke, “Intramedullary Nailing of Humeral Shaft Fractures”, in Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications, →ISBN, page 179