The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . can take this posture drill quickly on signals. HOW TO CORRECT POOR POSTURE 129 If, after relaxing into the old habitual position, he cannot resumeaccurately the corrected position, he should again be helpedinto it. This drill on losing and resuming the good positionshould be repeatedseveral times in suc-cession. It is thefoundation for anyfurther work, and toomuch cannot be saidof its is no use intrying to strengthenany weak musclesconnected with poorposture unless thechild
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . can take this posture drill quickly on signals. HOW TO CORRECT POOR POSTURE 129 If, after relaxing into the old habitual position, he cannot resumeaccurately the corrected position, he should again be helpedinto it. This drill on losing and resuming the good positionshould be repeatedseveral times in suc-cession. It is thefoundation for anyfurther work, and toomuch cannot be saidof its is no use intrying to strengthenany weak musclesconnected with poorposture unless thechild can assume thiscorrect position as abasis for exercisingthem, for otherwisethe old habits of co-ordination assertthemselves during theperformance of theexercise, and its cor-rective effects are some childrenpatient help in assuming the right position is needed on suc-cessive days, but most children will acquire in a few minutesthe power to put themselves in position. Two faults may need to be guarded against in this correctionof position — a bending forward at the waist or hips instead. Fig. 48. — How to place the hands for drawing theshoulder blades backward into position. 130 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN of swaying forward from the ankles, and the overcorrection withfixed and distended ribs, which cultivates lordosis (exaggeratedlumbar curve). If there be any tendency to bend forward atthe waist or hips, instead of swaying forward from the ankles,it may at once be overcome by asking that the whole body bekept firm as though in one piece, with no joints except at thefeet as the weight is swayed forward. Sometimes the stretch-ing sidewise of the arms will also help to overcome this tendencyto bend forward at the waist or hips. With such a power of voluntarily assuming the correct posi-tion, however transitory may be the ability to hold it, one hasa foundation on which to rear a structure of strong muscles andthe habit of their proper coordination in any of the a
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