. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 12.—Abduction of both arms. The importance of such suggestions has become evidentto us in the Medico-Mechanical Department of the Massa-chusetts General Hospital, as not infrequently patients andeven physicians living at a distance remarked that theycould not enjoy exercise treatment at their homes as theydid not have such wonderful machines. My answer hasalways been: ^Rational exercise treatment can be carriedon everywhere and on the whole does not require machines,valuable as they
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 12.—Abduction of both arms. The importance of such suggestions has become evidentto us in the Medico-Mechanical Department of the Massa-chusetts General Hospital, as not infrequently patients andeven physicians living at a distance remarked that theycould not enjoy exercise treatment at their homes as theydid not have such wonderful machines. My answer hasalways been: ^Rational exercise treatment can be carriedon everywhere and on the whole does not require machines,valuable as they may be for a large hospital or a specialinstitution. EXERCISES WITH ROPES AND PULLEYS 51 Although the plan of this book does not actually demandit, a brief review of the most important and frequently usedapparatus for passive and active movements will be given. Zanders System.—The oldest system is that of GustafZander, a man gifted with both technical talents and medical. Fig. 13.—Active drawing down and passive pulling up of arm. inspiration. He began to construct his apparatus in 1864,when he was medical instructor in a normal school for original idea was to construct mechanical apparatusfor resistive exercise which make the patient independentof the reliability and faithfulness of the assistant. Thisplan Zander has accomplished in a very serviceable andalmost perfect w^ay, proof of which is the fact that even now, 52 APPARATUS, SPORTS AND GAMES about fifty years after Zanders first construction, his ap-paratus are used over the whole world, and probably more
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