Right Living Necessary
It is also necessary, if the best results are to be secured, to combine the corrective exercises with every phase of right living. Manv people, having; heard that certain exercises are good for a spinal curvature, take the exercises, but neglect to correct their diet and to get more fresh air and sleep. Then they wonder why they do not get satisfactory results. Exer¬cise educates the muscles and creates a demand for their de¬velopment, but this development can take place only when the proper conditions are created through general right habits of living. Those who expect to recover from any abnormal condition by exercise alone will be disappointed. If lack of exercise has been one of the chief causes of their trouble, the addition of the proper muscular activity may make a marked change, but the effects will not be complete and perma¬nent unless all the laws of health and right living receive due attention.
For exercises to overcome specific deformities see Bow legs; Club-foot; Flatfoot; Parah/si.v; Rupture; Sight, Dis¬turbances of; Spinal Curvature (under Spine, Diseases of) in Volumes VII and VIII; also discussion on Increasing Height under Traction in Section 7 of this volume.
SPECIAL EXERCISE TREATMENTS.—The treatments here discussed are illustrated and described in detail throughout this section.
This mode of treatment is a combination of general bodily manipulation and resistive exercise. It includes a great variety of movements designed to reach all parts of the body. Sometimes manipulation may he administered without exer¬cise, sometimes it is given locally instead of generally, and there are always variations which may he utilized to meet special needs. The full description accompanying the many illustra¬tions will reveal the possibilities of this form of manipulation.