. Annals of surgery. ower extremitiesremaining extended, and the eyes being fixed upon the ceiling,and returning to the original position. Five to twenty times.(Fig. 26.) When the patient is proficient in these exercises, they shouldbe done at home every morning and evening. In addition tothese development exercises, I give the patients work with heavy16 242 JACOB TESCHNER. bars and dumb-bells at each visit to my office. The weight ofthe bars and bells, the number of times that each heavy weightor pair of weights is handled, and the frequency of the patientsvisits depend upon the strength, cap
. Annals of surgery. ower extremitiesremaining extended, and the eyes being fixed upon the ceiling,and returning to the original position. Five to twenty times.(Fig. 26.) When the patient is proficient in these exercises, they shouldbe done at home every morning and evening. In addition tothese development exercises, I give the patients work with heavy16 242 JACOB TESCHNER. bars and dumb-bells at each visit to my office. The weight ofthe bars and bells, the number of times that each heavy weightor pair of weights is handled, and the frequency of the patientsvisits depend upon the strength, capacity, and upon the enduranceof the individual. It has been my practice to put each patient tohis or her individual limit of work at each seance, and that limit isinvariably extended at each succeeding scajice, unless the patient isindisposed. The strength and endurance, as shown by the amountof weight handled and the number of times each weight and setof weights is handled, increases very markedly in every case from. Figs. 24 and 25c. one visit to another. This increase is largely dependent uponcorrectness of posture and precision in the work. This is a mat-ter of record in all my cases, as I keep a tabulated statement ofall the work, designating the weights used, and the exact numberof times each exercise has been performed. In reporting mycases, I shall, as an illustration, append the record of work in onecase (Case IX). Bells weighing from five to forty pounds eachand steel bars weighing from twenty-six to seventy-eight poundsare used in different ways. Bells are pushed from the shoulderabove the head alternately, as often as the patient can. TREATMENT OF DEFORMITIES OF THE TRUNK. 243 The patient is instructed to swing a heavy bell with onehand from the floor, above the head and down again, the elbowand wrist being fixed and the motion repeated as often as possiblein a systematic manner; then with the other hand, the samenumber of times ; and later with both. This exerts al
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