. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. 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
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. 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 Fig. 80.—Patient hanging over Zander apparatus K-1 for correction of lateral curvature. 2. Inclination of the body to the left side. When thebody is listed toward the right side the patient should learnto force it over toward the left side by his own muscle usually in these cases the left shoulder hangs downwardand backward, it should be forced upward and forward. Thehands may be placed on the neck or the right hand may press EXERCISE TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE 299 on the right dorsal hump and the left placed on the neckand stretched out sideward. 3. Self-corrective exercise: In a case of left dorsal andright lumbar scoliosis the right hand is placed over the lum-
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