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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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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    extended a considerable time on account of stiffness of the right shoulder, the result of a gunshot injury. He had been told by a prominent orthopedic surgeon that nothing more in the way of active treat- ment could be done and that Time was the only cure. He was given simple movements with the clubs, which at first, if extended beyond a certain point, pro- duced pain. In a few days he began to be interested in the number of times he could repeat the movement without any pain. By the end of a month he was swinging the club round both inwards and outwards at full stretch of the arm. As Indian clubs have such a valuable application to those conditions and are superior to any machine, it is worth while to give as clear a description as is possible without practical demonstration of the first elementary movements. Indeed they are all that is necessary, because once a man can perform them he is capable of doing other things, and the object is not