The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. —Terminal position of the shoul- Fig. blade exercise. Correct attitude. - Incorrect terminal position forshoulder blade exercise. A weak child could do this exercise three or four times insuccession without resting, and may soon work up to ten timesin succession, though one should always remember to relaxthe good standing position for a moment when it seems partic-ularly difficult to hold, or is seen to be wavering. 138 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN The use of braces for roun
The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training . Fig. —Terminal position of the shoul- Fig. blade exercise. Correct attitude. - Incorrect terminal position forshoulder blade exercise. A weak child could do this exercise three or four times insuccession without resting, and may soon work up to ten timesin succession, though one should always remember to relaxthe good standing position for a moment when it seems partic-ularly difficult to hold, or is seen to be wavering. 138 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN The use of braces for round shoulders is only justifiable inextreme cases — mostly, if not wholly, of the resistant type —and after other measures have failed. In this phase of develop-ment, as in all others where the fault is one of weak muscles, themain remedy must lie in strengthening these and in removingall hygienic causes or persistent conditions that aggravate thetrouble. In the chapter on the shoulders was explained thedifference between resistant forward shoulders, in which some.
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