A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch
Date:
1892
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Credit: A primer of the art of massage for learners / by Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Co CA- MASSAGE is to perform extension and flexion of the elbow joint, after the manner shown in Fig. 9. You must raalcc the movements Fisr, g. Passive gymnastics of ihe elbow jnint. six or a dozen times, and clearly under- stand that the muscles are in a passive state, and that the patient does not exercise any volition whatever; hut on the other hand, remember that under given conditions it is necessary to ask the patient to make some resistance to luring volition into play, and so develop normal functional
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