Identifier: treatiseonorth00whit (find matches)
Title: A treatise on orthopedic surgery
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Whitman, Royal, 1857-
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Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Opposite bend standing, trunk raising, resisted.
Prone Lying, Head and Shoulder "Raising the SEAL". The patient lies upon a table or upon the floor, and raises the head and chest—"looks at the ceiling". Progression is made in the increased leverage of arm-weight transference.
LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE.
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ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY.
1. With the hands on the backs of the thighs. 2. With the left hand behind the neck and the right hand onthe back of the thigh. 3. With both hands behind the neck, and with the elbows well out and back. 4. Swimming. The arm motions of swimming, in three counts. This exercise is to strengthen the muscles of the back from the head to the pelvis. (ii) Prone Lying, Diving. The patient lies upon a table, the trunk and pelvis projecting beyond its edge, the limbs being fixed by a strap or by the weight of another person. The body is then bent downward and is raised again to the horizontal position (Fig. 140). In this exercise assistance will be required at first. Progression is made by transference of arm weights, as in the former exercise, thus: 1. With the hands on the hips. 2. With the arms stretched out at right angles to the body. 3. With the hands behind the neck. 4. With the arms extended in the line of the body. This exercise is for the purpose of strengthening all th

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