. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 82.—Correction of left lumbar or left total scoliosis. (Lange.) the head on the left shoulder and twists the spine and headtoward the left side (Fig. 78). In order to secure easierbalance the right foot may be placed forw^ard. As in allasymmetrical exercises in standing the control of the pelvis isdifficult if not impossible, it is advisable to use a pelvic clamp(Lovett).There are many different ways in which self-corrective EXERCISE TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE 301 exercise may be
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. Fig. 82.—Correction of left lumbar or left total scoliosis. (Lange.) the head on the left shoulder and twists the spine and headtoward the left side (Fig. 78). In order to secure easierbalance the right foot may be placed forw^ard. As in allasymmetrical exercises in standing the control of the pelvis isdifficult if not impossible, it is advisable to use a pelvic clamp(Lovett).There are many different ways in which self-corrective EXERCISE TREATMENT OF LATERAL CURVATURE 301 exercise may be done. Fig. 79 illustrates a method oftenemployed. A great number of apparatus have been constructed forthe correction of scoliosis, from the simplest up to the mostcomplicated and ingenious machines (Fig. 80). We agree\yith Lange in that apparatus for this purpose must be (1)simple to manage; (2) fairly inexpensive; and (3) exact in. Fig. 83.—Correction of right dorsal and left lumbar scoliosis. (Lange.) their work, i. e., we must be sure that correction or, if suchis possible, overcorrection must be well localized. Of all apparatus which we kno^ these requirements havebeen best fulfilled by Langes^ apparatus. For details hiswell-illustrated paper should be studied. We shall merely 1 Die Behandlung der habituellen Skoliose durch active und passiveOberkorrectur, Ztschr. f. Orthopaedische Chirurgie, 1907, vol. xviii. 302 LATERAL CURVATURE reproduce a few pictures. I^anges idea is to accomplishactive and passive correction or overcorrection with thesimplest kind of apparatus. This is fairly simple in singlecurves. For instance a loose left lumbar curve may beovercorrected by a simple pulley apparatus as shown inFigs. 81 and 82. Fig. 83 shows a case in which the left
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