A manual of therapeutic exercise and massage, designed for the use of physicians, students and masseurs (1917) (14597748638)

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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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Figs, 88 and 89.—A case of Littles disease: Patient stepping on andbetween books spread over a blanket. By a persistent use of a number ofexercises the patients condition was improved so much so that he now walksand runs almost^normally. r^Q TABES 35 mentioned the correlation of the motor and sensory nerves.It is the correct cooperation of these nerves, both centraland peripheral, upon which exact coordination depends, andthe idea of Frenkels treatment is to restore the disturbedfunction by substituting as much as possible healthy nervesfor the affected or even destroyed nerves. How much thiswill be possible depends on many factors, such as the severityof the case, the existence of complications, on the intactnessof the motor apparatus, both nerves and muscles, and lastbut not least, on the intelligence and energy of the patient.The physician who gives or supervises the treatment mustmake the patient understand that it has an entirely sympto-matic character, and can never result in

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