Gymnastic treatment for joint and muscle disabilities / by H.E. Deane ; with preface by A. Carless and F.W. Mott.

  • Deane, H. E.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Gymnastic treatment for joint and muscle disabilities / by H.E. Deane ; with preface by A. Carless and F.W. Mott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    methods of treating physical disabilities than those already employed. Hitherto chief reliance has been placed on massage to set free stiff joints and limbs —a most valuable and helpful agent when rightly applied. Devoted women have given themselves up to the carrying on of this work, and most admirable results have often been obtained; but with every desire to appreciate their work and with no desire to belittle its value, one has had forced on one’s mind sundry factors that indicate lamitations in its utility. (1) The ordinary medical man who orders massage for a patient knows nothing from personal experience of the methods employed, or of the results obtained or obtainable. He hands the patient over to the “*‘ massage department ”’ with smug satisfaction that he has done his duty in an up-to-date fashion, and troubles no more about the matter. (2) The massage is carried out as a rule by a woman who knows nothing but massage and perhaps a little electricity, and her horizon being thus limited, she will con- tinue massaging a case most assiduously and devotedly when all hopes of gaining