Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . Fig. 126.—Corset for Scoliosis Strength- Fig. 127.—Brace for a Case of Right DorsalENED BY Steel.—(Dolega.) Scoliosis, Applied.—(C. W. Keene. 154 TREATMENT The braces of Bradford, Adams, and Keene are representative ofthe best types of modern retention braces, but in the writers ex-perience better correction is maintained by removable jackets thanby braces. Under the conditions specified the choice between a removablejacket, a corset, or a brace, will be determined by the facility ofthe surgeon with each. (3) PASSIVE STRETCHING OF THE SPINE
Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . Fig. 126.—Corset for Scoliosis Strength- Fig. 127.—Brace for a Case of Right DorsalENED BY Steel.—(Dolega.) Scoliosis, Applied.—(C. W. Keene. 154 TREATMENT The braces of Bradford, Adams, and Keene are representative ofthe best types of modern retention braces, but in the writers ex-perience better correction is maintained by removable jackets thanby braces. Under the conditions specified the choice between a removablejacket, a corset, or a brace, will be determined by the facility ofthe surgeon with each. (3) PASSIVE STRETCHING OF THE SPINE It is at times desirable to increase flexibility of the spine morerapidly than can be done by free standing gymnastics alone andstretching of the contracted structures is in all cases of structuralscoliosis except the mildest more easily to be obtained by intermit-tent passive stretching in apparatus than by gymnastics following considerations bear on the use of stretching force asapplied to the spine whether in intermittent stret
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