Hand-book of medical gymnastics / by Anders Wide.

  • Wide, Anders (Anders Gustaf), 1854-
Date:
1899
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Credit: Hand-book of medical gymnastics / by Anders Wide. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    performed by means of one and the same apparatus, such a division is unsuitable. The same basis for division is adopted when classifying Medical Gymnastics as: Manual- and Mechanical- or Machine-Gymnastics; the meanings of which terms are self-evident. »Free-standings Gymnastics must not be confused with »Hygienics Gymnastics for, of course, free-standing move- ments can be used both in Hygienic and Medical Gymnastics, just as is the case with movements requiring apparatus. The denominations, Dietetic- and Exercise-Gymnastics are also easily understood. The division of the movements according to the different organs of the body acted upon, for example: into arm, leg and trunk movements, etc., is in general allowed, especially so in Medical Gymnastics, as clearness can thus be often gained. P. H. Ling divided the forms of movement which are used in his system of Medical Gymnastics, into Active, Pas- sive and Duplicate Movements. 1) An Active Movement is one wJiich the patient himself, by his oivft strength, performs independently. This denomination thus includes all the movements of Pedagogical Gymnastics; as we have already mentioned, some of them are used in Medical Gymnastics. 2) A Passive movement arises, zvhe7i one or more gym- nasts perform a movement, with, or on some part of the patient's body, zvitkout the patient by means of resistatice or in any other zvay assisting in the performance of the movement. Thus, under the denomination »Passive-movement», Swedish Medical Gym- nastics includes, not only movement executed zvith part of the patient's body but also on it, and this has held good ever since L,ing introduced his system. Some authors have lately tried to set up a distinct limit between Medic£il Gymnastics and Massage and for this reason declared, that movements on the patient should be assigned to massage, because no move- ment zL'ith the patient is made, neither does he himself per- form any movement, which is of course true, if one keep