. Buffalo medical journal. LE BRETON : ROTARY LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. 805 for its object the outlining: of the treatment as it exists todayin contradistinction to the obsolete methods formerly in vog^ the progfnosis has chang^ed may be seen from the fig^ures ofSchulthess/ who has recently recorded a hig-h percentag^e offavorable results— per cent of his cases out of a total num-ber of 618 patients. Before entering on the discussion of treatment a few wordsas to the method of examination for determining: the kind of. Fig. I., Case i.—Lateral deviation of the Fig. ii., Case i.
. Buffalo medical journal. LE BRETON : ROTARY LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. 805 for its object the outlining: of the treatment as it exists todayin contradistinction to the obsolete methods formerly in vog^ the progfnosis has chang^ed may be seen from the fig^ures ofSchulthess/ who has recently recorded a hig-h percentag^e offavorable results— per cent of his cases out of a total num-ber of 618 patients. Before entering on the discussion of treatment a few wordsas to the method of examination for determining: the kind of. Fig. I., Case i.—Lateral deviation of the Fig. ii., Case i.—Same patient as in spinous processes and rotation of the fig. 1. after nine months of treat- vertebrae. See fig. II. and III. ment by exercises and correc- tion in the machine. curve present, and as to the best means of recording prog^ress inthe case are indispensable, as these matters bear directly on thesubject. The patient must be stripped to the waist and muststand with the clothes lowered until the entire lumbar reg^ion andthe crests of the ilia are bare. Inspection of the back in g-ood lig-htdetects readily a projection of one hip or of one shoulder, a lackof symmetry in the position of the scapulae or a gfeneral inclina-tion of the trunk to one side, one arm perhaps resting: againstthe hip while the other swings clear of the body, as in fig. i. 8o6 LE BRETON : ROTARY LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE. The fing^er tracing- over the tips of the spinous processes fromcervical reg^ion to sacrum will find lateral deviation
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