An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Postures in rising to the Erect position (Gowers). weight of the head and shoulders. The child, therefore, unable to assume thesitting position, takes that of all fours, thus throwing the weight upon thehands and arms, while the legs are being straightened. He then works hishands backward along the floor until he gets to a position from which with aneifort he can grasp the legs above the knee, and then, by alternately claspingthem at a higher level, he thrusts the trunk into a more and more erect posi-tion, until by a final push he jerks t
An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Postures in rising to the Erect position (Gowers). weight of the head and shoulders. The child, therefore, unable to assume thesitting position, takes that of all fours, thus throwing the weight upon thehands and arms, while the legs are being straightened. He then works hishands backward along the floor until he gets to a position from which with aneifort he can grasp the legs above the knee, and then, by alternately claspingthem at a higher level, he thrusts the trunk into a more and more erect posi-tion, until by a final push he jerks the spine into the position of lordosis alreadydescribed. To use the common and appropriate phrase, he climbs up hislegs. We have already said that the hypertrophied muscles after a time lose theirvolume and become atrophied. This may not take place until after many (tento fourteen) years, and does not affect all of the hypertrophied muscles at thesame time. Those of the upper extremity are generally the first to undergothe change, the muscles of the
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