The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. I. — A perfectly erect attitude. This vertical line test forerect posture of the body as awhole is equally applicable tochildren of all ages and toadults. It forms the simplestmeans of determining good carriage, for in this way one sees thewhole figure at a glance, and analytical details appear, as theyshould, in relation to the whole, and not as detached facts.^ Fig. 2. — Incorrect posture : the fa-tigue position. Appendix, Note 2. lO THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Bad posture, as alrea
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. I. — A perfectly erect attitude. This vertical line test forerect posture of the body as awhole is equally applicable tochildren of all ages and toadults. It forms the simplestmeans of determining good carriage, for in this way one sees thewhole figure at a glance, and analytical details appear, as theyshould, in relation to the whole, and not as detached facts.^ Fig. 2. — Incorrect posture : the fa-tigue position. Appendix, Note 2. lO THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Bad posture, as already intimated, may also be determinedby the use of a line test, but in all types of bad posture theline indicating the general axis of the body becomes a zigzaginstead of vertical. For practical educational purposes there are four types of badposture that need tobe considered.^ Thecommonest of these iscalled the fatigue posi-tion, because, thoughunfortunately the ha-bitual carriage of somepeople, it is the col-lapsed or relaxed posi-tion that any one isliable to assume tem-porarily when fatigue
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