The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Figs. 74-75. — Testing posture with a window pole. is not retracted in the corrected position, the distance betweenthe front of the belt and the window pole (which serves in theillustration for the vertical line) being the same in both is increased tension in the abdominal muscles, but this isincidental to getting the upper part of the body in position, andno instructions will be necessary for the position of hips orabdomen. 2l8 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN CLASS CORRECTION.
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Figs. 74-75. — Testing posture with a window pole. is not retracted in the corrected position, the distance betweenthe front of the belt and the window pole (which serves in theillustration for the vertical line) being the same in both is increased tension in the abdominal muscles, but this isincidental to getting the upper part of the body in position, andno instructions will be necessary for the position of hips orabdomen. 2l8 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN CLASS CORRECTION. — These corrections may be made formany pupils at once by means of a class exercise as follows:Have the entire class stretch the arms strongly sidewise atshoulder level, with palms turned downward (Fig. 42). In this. Fig. 76. — The hands placed for pushingthe upper part of trunk forward. tiG. 77. — Another view of the methodof correcting the position of the trunk. position the pupils should sway forward from the ankles so thatthe weight is nearly or quite over the balls of the feet. Careshould be taken that this swaying is not misinterpreted as abending at the waist or hips, but is done literally by the anklejoints. Swaying backward and forward in this position a few TO CORRECT POOR POSTURE IN THE CLASSROOM 219
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