Gymnastic treatment for joint and muscle disabilities / by H.E. Deane ; with preface by A. Carless and F.W. Mott.

  • Deane, H. E.
Date:
1918
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gymnastic treatment for joint and muscle disabilities / by H.E. Deane ; with preface by A. Carless and F.W. Mott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flexed owing to contraction of scar tissue over the adductor group. The scar was twelve inches long, dense, irregular, puck- ered, and adherent to underlying muscle and fascia. He was put to flexing and extending the knee joints, and on exercises on the parallel bars, on dropping from which he had to be greatly assisted at first. He also played the games described else- where. In less than a month he could fully extend the left«knee; “ex 11 to an angle of 70 degrees, could balance-walk on the beam, and walk without a limp. This man is also photographed standing on the beam (Fig. 19). | A knowledge of the use of this apparatus will enable the instructor to dispense with the expensive rowing-machines which are advocated by some. Our object is not to teach a disabled man to row, but to enable him to recover the use of his body and limbs to fit him for his military duties, or failing that end, to render his injury less disabling for civil employment.