Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Metro-Therapy, Measuring Elbow MotionWalter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. therapy. It informed the medical officers and instructors re-garding the mans progress and the efficacy of treatment. Itafforded encouragement to the man and stimulated interest inhis own case. It improved mental attitude and encouraged co-operation and effort. Thousands of these measurements weretaken. Chart 6 shows the record of one soldier whose recoveryof function in elbow and wrist
Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Metro-Therapy, Measuring Elbow MotionWalter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. therapy. It informed the medical officers and instructors re-garding the mans progress and the efficacy of treatment. Itafforded encouragement to the man and stimulated interest inhis own case. It improved mental attitude and encouraged co-operation and effort. Thousands of these measurements weretaken. Chart 6 shows the record of one soldier whose recoveryof function in elbow and wrist coincided with the work taken intypewriting and woodwork. At times the curve of progressshowed abrupt decline or plateaus of no improvement which. Chart 6. Curative Workshop Improvement Chart Achievement 33 coincided quite closely with furloughs and with absence fromclass or workshop. Though in these cases it is not possible tocredit all the improvement to the curative activity, yet the coin-cidence of improvement with activity in thousands of casescreates a strong inference that the activity was helpful andpromoted improvement. Accurate records were kept with one group of patients atGeneral Hospital No. 3, Colonia, New Jersey, in which the directbenefit of wood shop activity is clearly evident. A group offorty patients who were enrolled in the wood shop for curativeexercises were also measured regularly in the metro-therapy lab-oratory. Accurate records of attendance upon the curativeworkshop were kept. After one months time, from March 15to April 14, 1919, the men were ranked in accordance with at-tendance upon the wood shop work and in accordance with theper cent of improvement in motion and strength as shown bythe metro-ther
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