An orthopedic exercise designed to remedy an imbalance in shoulder height. A weight was to be carried under the arm. Originally, the term orthopedics meant the correcting of musculoskeletal deformities in children. Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard (1658 - May 13, 1742) a French professor at the University of Paris coined the term in the first textbook written on the subject, Orthopédie, in by James Hullet, 1743.

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Nicolas Andry, Orthopedic Exercise, 1743

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