The practice and applied therapeutics of osteopathy / by Charles Hazzard.

  • Hazzard, Charles
Date:
1901
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Credit: The practice and applied therapeutics of osteopathy / by Charles Hazzard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    upon the side from which the head has been forced. The head is now swung forward and to the side opposite its first position while the hand brings pressure upon the fixed points, one after the other. This motion makes use oitlieneck as a lever of the first class, the fulcrum being formed by the hand at the fixed point, with the lesion (weight) below, and the power (hand applied to the head) above. It is a method of exag- geration the lesion, and is especially useful for the reduction of lateral luxations in the upper part of the spine. X. (a) A variation from the above applies the same principles to lesions lower down in the spine. The patient sits; the practitioner stands at one side and passes one arm in front of him, grasping his body securely, and rotating his trunk about fixed points made at any desired place along the spine by the application of the free hand to it. The cushion of the thumb o£ this hand is pressed firmly against one side of the spine of the vertebrae suffering from lesion, while the bent index finger is pressed against the other. XL The patient sits and cZasps/u's hnnch behind his necJi] the practitioner stands behind, passes his arms beneath the axillae and his palms behind the patient's wrists, which he grasps in his hands. He now places one fooi upon the stool and presses the flat of the knee against the back at one side of the spinous processes. As the practitioner straightens his body and draws the patient back against his knee the neck and upper dorsal spine are bent forward, the middle and lower portions of the spine are pressed forward by the knee, the scapulae travel back and up, and all of the ribs, except the first three or four pairs which are sprung forward and downward, are drawn strongly backward and upward. This treatment thoroughly stretches most of the spinal ligaments, costo-spinal ligaments, muscles of the back of the neck, scapulae, and of the spine. It also brings tension upon most of the intervertebral, the costo-vertebral, the costo- sternal, acromio-clavicular and claviculo-sternal articulations. XII. With the patient sitting, the practitioner, standing behind, may place one knee beneath the patienVs axilla, thus raising and fixing the shoulder and the ribs of one side of the