The treatment of lateral curvature of the spine : with appendix giving an analysis of 1000 consecutive cases treated by posture and exercise exclusively, without mechanical supports . out of ten, the patientwill have placed himself or herself in a posture corre-sponding with the form of the curvature, except thatusually it is highly exaggerated. In most early cases,where, as we shall see later on, the whole spine is usuallyconvex to the left, this is found to be exactly the postureof writing; in severer (, more advanced) cases, wherethe usual type is to have the dorsal (upper) curve withco
The treatment of lateral curvature of the spine : with appendix giving an analysis of 1000 consecutive cases treated by posture and exercise exclusively, without mechanical supports . out of ten, the patientwill have placed himself or herself in a posture corre-sponding with the form of the curvature, except thatusually it is highly exaggerated. In most early cases,where, as we shall see later on, the whole spine is usuallyconvex to the left, this is found to be exactly the postureof writing; in severer (, more advanced) cases, wherethe usual type is to have the dorsal (upper) curve withconvexity to the right, the patient in writing generallyraises the right shoulder, and this to a far greater degreethan in the ordinary posture of the Lateral vicious posture during writing is due to the unfor-tunate custom of teaching a slanting handwriting from left THE TREATMENT OE to right upwards obliquely, whereas the natural directionof the handwriting ought to be really in the oppositedirection, as any one will recognise by sitting perfectlyerect with his hands symmetrically placed on the desk,and then attempting to write without screwing the right Fig.
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