. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 78.—Self-correction in forward flexed position. It may be of interest to mention in this connection thatAbbott claims hyperflexion to be best suitable for correctionand overcorrection. Furthermore, Adamss ideas may berecalled that increased lumbar lordosis and increased forwardinclination of the pelvis may favor slipping of any of the lowerlumbar vertebrae, thus further damaging the irregular baseof the scoliotic spine. When Klapp compares the great flexibility of the tiger or EXERCI
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 78.—Self-correction in forward flexed position. It may be of interest to mention in this connection thatAbbott claims hyperflexion to be best suitable for correctionand overcorrection. Furthermore, Adamss ideas may berecalled that increased lumbar lordosis and increased forwardinclination of the pelvis may favor slipping of any of the lowerlumbar vertebrae, thus further damaging the irregular baseof the scoliotic spine. When Klapp compares the great flexibility of the tiger or EXERCISE TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE 297 the cat, which animals have a very straight or almost lordoticspine with the increase in mobility of the scoliotic spine inhyperextension, it may be objected that such comparisonshould not be based on the external anatomy, but only onthe structure of the articular processes which differ verywidelv in the various classes of Fig. 79.—Self-correction in kneeling. Further exercises in creeping or from the creeping positionmay be done by raising one arm and shoulder with twistingthe body, in a way similar to that described for the resistiveexercise No. 2, p. 287 (see also Fig. 75). The standing position is in our opinion the least favorable 298 LATERAL CURVATURE for special corrective exercises, though its value for posturalcorrection cannot be doubted. We will describe a fewexercises in standing but wish it to be understood that we donot rely upon them alone. 1. In a case of left total scoliosis correction or even over-correction may be obtained by stretching the right armupward and the left arm downward or sideward (Fig. 76).A slight bending of the trunk toward the left side and aslight twist toward the left side may be combined with thestretching of the arms.
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