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Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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spinewill be necessary in those cases wherethe defects are greatly exaggerated.In the ordinary case of spinal curva-ture, the exercises that I will illustratein this series of articles, if followedintelligently and regularly, will in nearlyevery instance remedy the defect. OTHER DEFECTS REMEDIED BY THESE MOVEMENTS. There are many other serious physicaldefects that can also be remedied by sure affecting one or more nerves is liableto lessen their efficiency and thus causepartial paralysis, and so prevent theparticular part to which the nerves areconnected from working properly.Straightening the spine will therefore,as you can readily realize, remedyserious defects of this nature. In fact,this is the theory upon which osteo-pathists proceed. They maintain thata properly formed spine is absolutelynecessary to the enjoyment of the highestdegree of health, and that if any ofyour organs is not properly performingits functions, the cause can, in practicallyevery case be located in the spine.
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Poll as vigorously as you can. Return and repeat until slightly tired. Then reverseposition and take same exercise with fingers of both hands interlaced under left leg. Bringsinto vigorous use the muscles and spinal column in the region of the small of back. the methods that I am describing.I have already impressed upon youthe value of a properly formed spine.The spine, as most of my readers know,protects the largest nerve of the body;which is located within the spinalcolumn. If any one of the vertebraeis displaced in the slightest degree, itvery often presses upon the nerve, andas a result, some part of the body isaffected by this pressure. Paralysis,for instance, can be easily caused bypressure of this kind. Even where thecomplaint is not of such a serious nature,a comparatively slight amount of pres- When one or more of the vertebrasare misplaced or pressing upon the nerveswithin the spinal column, they arelessening the efficiency of the particularparts to which these nerves are co

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