. Orthopaedic surgery for students and general practitioners : preliminary considerations and diseases of the spine : 114 original illustrations. FiG. 83. An Exercise for Weak Trapezius, Weak Rhomboids and Lordosis. ing the posterior shoulder muscles by raising the arms upand down and increasing the effort by suitable dumb-bellsheld in the patients hands which are to be raised andlowered in the plane of the shoulders. NON-TUBERCULOUS DISEASES OF THE SPINE. 173 (^) Long sitting, wing position is another useful drillto use daily in overcoming tendencies to round shouldersand swayback. (Fig. 83.)
. Orthopaedic surgery for students and general practitioners : preliminary considerations and diseases of the spine : 114 original illustrations. FiG. 83. An Exercise for Weak Trapezius, Weak Rhomboids and Lordosis. ing the posterior shoulder muscles by raising the arms upand down and increasing the effort by suitable dumb-bellsheld in the patients hands which are to be raised andlowered in the plane of the shoulders. NON-TUBERCULOUS DISEASES OF THE SPINE. 173 (^) Long sitting, wing position is another useful drillto use daily in overcoming tendencies to round shouldersand swayback. (Fig. 83.) (j) In very many cases of kyphosis such contraction ofthe pectorals (major and minor) has occurred from pro-longed faulty position, that it is essential to stretch themthoroughly before it is possible for the patient to assume. Fig. 84. Ax Exercise to Stretch Contracted Pectorals, Given ForciblyBY Gymnast with a Pad under Apex of Kyphosis. anything like a proper position. One method of doing thisis shown in Fig. 84, where patient is in the stretch grasp,hook lying position and the gymnast forcibly carries theextended arms downward and backward. The stretchingcan be facilitated by having a padded block between theshoulder blades. 174 ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. Another method to accompHsh this is to have the patienthang on the bar or boom with the hands as far apart aspossible and for the gymnast to exert forcible forward pres-sure between the shoulder blades. In some cases we find forcible hyperextension on the
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