Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . Fig. 40.—Radiogram of Total Curve in Patient Shown in Fig. 39. in this position. This reverse rotation, concave torsion,retrotorsion, as it has been called, has been much discussed^ and is1 Schulthess: Zeitsch. f. orth. Chir., x, page 489. TRANSITIONAL CURVES 57 an accompaniment of total scoliosis, but it is a physiological mattereasily understood by studying the mechanics of the normal has been claimed that total scoliosis is really a triple-compound curve/ and that the torsion tothe concave side is really dueto a slight right dors
Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders . Fig. 40.—Radiogram of Total Curve in Patient Shown in Fig. 39. in this position. This reverse rotation, concave torsion,retrotorsion, as it has been called, has been much discussed^ and is1 Schulthess: Zeitsch. f. orth. Chir., x, page 489. TRANSITIONAL CURVES 57 an accompaniment of total scoliosis, but it is a physiological mattereasily understood by studying the mechanics of the normal has been claimed that total scoliosis is really a triple-compound curve/ and that the torsion tothe concave side is really dueto a slight right dorsal curve;a--rays of such cases taken inthe standing position show,however, in many cases, a grad-ual curve to -the left withoutcompensating curves (Fig. 40);in other cases apparently totalcurves in a;-rays taken in thisway seem to be
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