. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. FiG. 70.—Suspension by hands and head. The patient is shown hangingon one of Zanders apparatus; by pulling one or both handles down the seatis raised on one side. pension are not suitable for exercise treatment in suspensionor in weight-bearing, but only such cases which show abilityto strengthen and correct the spine by muscle 290 LATERAL CURVATURE Of great value, however, is the hand suspension on theSwedish ladder or on rings or a trapeze in combination withactive exercises o
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. FiG. 70.—Suspension by hands and head. The patient is shown hangingon one of Zanders apparatus; by pulling one or both handles down the seatis raised on one side. pension are not suitable for exercise treatment in suspensionor in weight-bearing, but only such cases which show abilityto strengthen and correct the spine by muscle 290 LATERAL CURVATURE Of great value, however, is the hand suspension on theSwedish ladder or on rings or a trapeze in combination withactive exercises of the arms, legs, and trunk. Such exercisesmay be done in various ways, subject to modifications ac-cording to the character of the deformities (Figs. 71 and 72).. Fig. 71.—Hip and knee flexion in suspension. The most valuable exercise which is done by the patientalone without help of another person or apparatus is thecreeping exercise which has been developed by from the observation that four-footed animals EXERCISE TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE 291 almost never have scoliosis, Klapp made a perfectly logicalstep in advising the knee-hand position as a rational way toperform exercises in the treatment of lateral we cannot quite share the enthusiastic claims ofKlapp and his pupils about the immense value of his method,
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