Lateral curvature of the spine : its causes, nature, and treatment / By R.W. Tamplin.

  • Tamplin, R. W. (Richard William), 1814-1874.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Lateral curvature of the spine : its causes, nature, and treatment / By R.W. Tamplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exercise of muscles increases their development. Therefore, to exercise the muscles of a curved back by the use of pulleys, and a variety of other modes, is to create a direct obstacle to successful treatment, for not only aie the muscles exercised on the convexity of the curve, but also on the concavity, which, by an increase of development, augments the resistance already present. As well, and with as much reason, might the muscles of the foot or leg be subjected to daily exercise during the time that we are removing the deformities in those articulations; or, to take an extreme illustration, the muscles of a fractured leg, whilst union is taking place. The only exercise that I have ventured to use, and that but rarely, was the horizontal action of the flexors and extensors of the arm situated on the concavity of the curve, with a view of developing the rhomboidei muscles, and that portion of the trapezius