The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. 7q. — Wing shoulder blades on a childtwelve. even by assistance from the The shoulder-blade posi-tion, which, if hidden by theclothing, may be judged forextreme cases by the eartest described in Chapter IX,and also by feehng for thefiat back, may need furtherassistance from the very thin children thelower angle of the shoulderblades may sometimes befelt even when the bladesare lying flat on the back;in such cases the one simple of standing in profile to theteacher. If the uppe
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. 7q. — Wing shoulder blades on a childtwelve. even by assistance from the The shoulder-blade posi-tion, which, if hidden by theclothing, may be judged forextreme cases by the eartest described in Chapter IX,and also by feehng for thefiat back, may need furtherassistance from the very thin children thelower angle of the shoulderblades may sometimes befelt even when the bladesare lying flat on the back;in such cases the one simple of standing in profile to theteacher. If the upper partof the spine be backward, orthe chest depressed, the cor-rection should be made byplacing one hand, or a book,at the waist line in front tosteady the body, and withthe other hand at the backover the shoulder blades,pushing the upper part ofthe body forward (Figs. 76and 77). The head andneck positions may have tobe assumed by a direct efforton the part of the child, orteacher, as shown in Fig. Fig. 80. — The same boy voluntarily con-tracting the shoulder-blade muscles. TO CORRECT POOR POSTURE IN THE CLASSROOM 221 requisite of flatness determines the correct position. In a prominent shoulder blade and its obhque (improper)direction are both indicated. The correction may best be madewith the pupil standingwith back to the should then place onehand over the round ofeach shoulder and drawthe shoulder blades back-ward and inward towardeach other, flattening themon the back (Fig. 83).After being once assistedto this position, pupilsreadily acquire the powerto adduct the shoulderblades voluntarily. InFig. 80 is shown an ex-treme effort at correctionof protruding shoulderblades; in a normal posi-tion these do not come soclose together nor toucheach other. For throwing outwardof the ribs or stomach ina mistaken effort to en-large the chest, an entirely different method of correctionis necessary.^ This position may always be detected bythe exaggerated out
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