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Identifier: lateralcurvature1916love (find matches)
Title: Lateral curvature of the spine and round shoulders
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Lovett, Robert W. (Robert Williamson), 1859-1924
Subjects: Spine Spine Spinal Curvatures
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Sons & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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he side to which the spine is concave. On the opposite side, the convex, thearm passes under the knee, the thigh being flexed at the hip, and the shoulderand pelvis are thus approximated, (i) The patient thus standing on one legflexes that knee and allows the body-weight to come upon the arm. (2) Theoriginal position is resumed (Fig. 116). When the arm is placed under the knee the pelvis and shoulder are approxi-mated on that side and the spine made convex to the other side as far as it will go.The structures on the concave side are thus put on the stretch and, by allowingthe body-weight to come on the arm holding to the ladder, a further stretchingforce is exerted on the structures on the concave side. The exercise is suitedto total and dorsal curves. Creeping Exercises (Kllapp).—In these exercises the patient supports thetrunk in a horizontal position with the hands and knees or feet on the floor. Thehands, knees, and toes should be protected by leather pads which are strapped on.
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Fig. 117. Pig. 118. XIX. Symmetrical Creeping.—The hand and knee of the right side are placedclose together with the hand to the outer side of the knee, the head is twisted withthe face to the right, and the trunk is rotated with the left shoulder upward.The left arm is extended beyond the head and the hand placed on the floor, palmdown and fingers forward, as far forward as possible and directly in front of theright knee. The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forwardlocomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described. Themechanism of the first reversal is as follows: the left knee is drawn forward to theinner side of the left hand in its original place and position, the right arm isextended above the head, and the hand placed as far in front of the left knee aspossible with the palm down and fingers front. At the same time the spine isrotated to bring th

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