. Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . liLiSU Fig. 77.—Patient with Left Dor-sal Curve in 1900. Fig. 78.—Same Patient in 1905 af-ter Five Years of Treatment. by competent surgeons who do not believe in corsets or supports.*The former class serves only to bring the legitimate use of gym-nastics for scoliosis into disrepute; the latter class use the gym-nastics understandingly, and, on the whole, take a pessimistic view ofthe results to be obtained in severe scoliosis. Moreover, it is a mistake Teschner: N. Y. Med. Rec, Dec. 6, 1903; Erich: N. Y. Med. Jour.,Oct. 7, 1S9
. Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . liLiSU Fig. 77.—Patient with Left Dor-sal Curve in 1900. Fig. 78.—Same Patient in 1905 af-ter Five Years of Treatment. by competent surgeons who do not believe in corsets or supports.*The former class serves only to bring the legitimate use of gym-nastics for scoliosis into disrepute; the latter class use the gym-nastics understandingly, and, on the whole, take a pessimistic view ofthe results to be obtained in severe scoliosis. Moreover, it is a mistake Teschner: N. Y. Med. Rec, Dec. 6, 1903; Erich: N. Y. Med. Jour.,Oct. 7, 1S99. 122 TREATMENT. to make a spine more flexible unless one is prepared to hold the spinein the improved position by a corset or brace or by muscular develop-ment, because if flexibility is increased, the spine will sink furtherinto the bad position by virtue of its increased mobility unless somemeans is provided to prevent this. In mild structural scoliosisefiicient gymnastics may constitute the sole treatment, and may becontinued as the sole tre
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