. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. ribed for the similar exercise in standing (Fig. 8). EXERCISES IN HANGING. Exercises in hanging are done on a Swedish ladder, a bar,or rings. Pulling up to bring the chin level with the bar;raising one or both legs with the knee flexed or extended toa right angle or higher; swinging the body somewhat sidewardand similar exercises may be done which could be greatlymodified on the Swedish ladder. EXERCISES IN THRUST POSITION. To be sure, this position itself is an exercise, but it can alsob
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. ribed for the similar exercise in standing (Fig. 8). EXERCISES IN HANGING. Exercises in hanging are done on a Swedish ladder, a bar,or rings. Pulling up to bring the chin level with the bar;raising one or both legs with the knee flexed or extended toa right angle or higher; swinging the body somewhat sidewardand similar exercises may be done which could be greatlymodified on the Swedish ladder. EXERCISES IN THRUST POSITION. To be sure, this position itself is an exercise, but it can alsobe used in combination with movements of the legs. Themore the body approaches the horizontal position in thisexercise the more difficult will it become. It is of value only EXERCISES IN THRUST POSITION 45 with perfect control of the joints and of the armsand is done in the following w^ay: The patient thrusts hisstraight arms against the edge of a sideboard or the like, lean-ing the body slightly forward. The scapulae should be fixedso as to remain in the same position as in correct Fi(i. 8.—Raisini!; of trunk. Now the elbows are flexed, thus the body is brought stillmore forward until the head comes near to the hands, andthen the arms must be straightened out again. This exercisemay be combined with tiptoe exercise, with hyperextensionof either leg, etc. To make it more difficult the arms arethrust against a chair or even against the floor. CHAPTER IV. APPARATUS, SPORTS AND GAMES. It is not astonishing that the remarkable progress whichthe technic has made in the last fifty years has been reflectedin the practice of massage and exercise. Since Zandercreated his first apparatus an endless number and variety ofapparatus for all kinds of mechanical manipulations, passiveand active exercise, have been constructed. As it is thepurpose of this book to give suggestions for practical anduseful application of massage and exercise an enumerationof all those systems
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