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Title: A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bucholz, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1874-
Subjects: Exercise therapy Massage
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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FiG. 52.—Cane exercise for backward motion of arms. cise, the operator holding the cane with his right hand andwith his left hand steadying the scapula (Fig. 52). 2. The patient bends his elbows, thereby raising the canehorizontally as much as possible. Now the operator grasps SUBACROMIAL BURSITIS 225 the elbows and gives resistance, concentric and eccentric,while the patient moves his elbows forward and backward.This exercise may be done symmetrically or asymmetrically.(Fig. 53.) In order to apply greater force the operator pushes hisright arm under the patients arm (in an affection of the
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Fig. 53.—Cane exercise for rotation of arm. right shoulder) arid steadies the scapula with both hands.The patient moves his elbow forward and backward. A verygreat and at the same time well-measured force may thusbe applied. Similar exercises may be done, as illustrated by Figs. 54and 55.15 226 SUBACROMIAL BURSITIS In cases where firm cicatricial adhesions have formed oneof the following methods of treatment must be adopted.(a) Gradual stretching.(6) lUipture under an anesthetic.(c) Operation.

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