. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. 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 rig
. A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs. 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-. FiG. 81.— Overcorrection of a left lumbar curve. (Lange.) bar curve and the left hand over the dorsal curve. Bothhands press and try to correct the spinal curves (Fig. 77).When the trunk is listed toward one side this exercise shouldbe combined with the last mentioned. These exercises may be combined with falling out of one 300 LATERAL CURVATURE leg in the manner described under Nos. 10 and 11 of thepostural exercises, though this should not be practised beforesufficient control is obtained. 4. The following exercise has been developed according tothe principles of correction as devised by Mackenzie Forbes:In a left dorsal scoliosis the patient bends the body forward,places the left hand on the back, the right hand in front of
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