. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 68.—Extension of the spine with assistance. hump with the knee. This exercise may be combined withresistive movements (Fig. (39). 22. The patient is standing, or better sitting on a low stool. A cane is placed on his back and held there by the flexed arms, while a small but firm pillow is put between the cane and the spine. By pulling the arms forward a corrective pressure is 18 274 FAULTY POSTURE—KYPHOSIS applied against the hump, an effect which may still be muchincreased by the op
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 68.—Extension of the spine with assistance. hump with the knee. This exercise may be combined withresistive movements (Fig. (39). 22. The patient is standing, or better sitting on a low stool. A cane is placed on his back and held there by the flexed arms, while a small but firm pillow is put between the cane and the spine. By pulling the arms forward a corrective pressure is 18 274 FAULTY POSTURE—KYPHOSIS applied against the hump, an effect which may still be muchincreased by the operator giving a resistance to the armspulling the cane, and adding pressure with his hand or fiston the Fig. 69.—Bracing of back with knee against dorsal spine; also for resistive exercise. Many of these exercises may be combined with breathingexercises, but in cases where it is difficult for the patient tocontrol movements of the chesty breathing in its different FAULTY POSTURE—KYPHOSIS 275 forms of thoracic and abdominal breathing, and a combina-tion of both should be practised in addition. 23. A kind of reversed breathing which has been foundof special value in such cases is done in the following way:The patient takes a deep abdominal inspiration, holding hishands against the abdomen and applying a gentle this movement the ribs should not be raised, butrather somewhat lowered. Then during the expiration theribs must be forcibly raised, for which the hands may giveassistance from the abdomen. We have found this exerciseof particular value in cases of marked atonia of the abdominalwall. During the inspiration the patient will show a certaintendency to lean backwar
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