Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . Fig. 1045.—School Desk which is Adjustable to Standing and Sitting Postures. Scoliosis (Lateral Curvature of the Spine).—Prophylaxis has much tooffer. The causes should be avoided and corrected. Among these are to benoted: (1) deformities in other parts, such as shortening of one leg; (2)unequal paralyses of muscles of the back; (3) distorting thoracic disease,. Fig. 1046.—Exercises for Strengthening Muscles of the Back. such as empyema; (4) distorting disease of
Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . Fig. 1045.—School Desk which is Adjustable to Standing and Sitting Postures. Scoliosis (Lateral Curvature of the Spine).—Prophylaxis has much tooffer. The causes should be avoided and corrected. Among these are to benoted: (1) deformities in other parts, such as shortening of one leg; (2)unequal paralyses of muscles of the back; (3) distorting thoracic disease,. Fig. 1046.—Exercises for Strengthening Muscles of the Back. such as empyema; (4) distorting disease of the spine, such as spondylitis orfracture; (5) bad habitual posture; and (6) rickets. Posture in the youngis most important. Correct school desks and seats should be insisted upon(Fig. 1045J. Improvement of the general health and the local tone of the THE SPIXE 353 muscles of the back are essential, and best accomplished by work in the openair which requires the use of all the muscles of the back up to the point offatigue. If this cannot be done then gymnastic exercises may be used(see Teschner: Annals of Surgery, Vol. XXII, page 230). Heavy dumb bells are of service. Muscle-building exercises are used,especially applied to the back muscles. The patient is held prone with thebody above the groins projecting over a table and caused to extend the spineas many times as possible (Fig. 1046). He is caused to stand and benddownward and upward (Fig. 1047), and to flex the spine laterally
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