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MADE UNDER RESISTANCE. 99
B. MADE UNDER RESISTANCE EITHER FROM PATIENT OR
OPERATOR.
Bending and. Stretching of the Neck.
The patient stands quite erect, with his hands steadied against
the wall of the room. The operator places his hands well below
the base of the patient’s head, having the thenar part of the palm
on each side behind the mastoid process, and the thumbs lying
horizontally under the occiput. The patient now makes resist-
ance while the operator bends the head forwards, after having
Fig. 62.
first well stretched the neck (fig. 62). When the movement
reaches its anterior limit, the patient in his turn raises the head,
the manipulator makiug resistance.
Through this movement the muscles of the back of the neck
in general are affected, but the influence of its action is also felt
at the upper part of the back. If we wish to isolate the move-
ment to one side of the neck, say for instance in rheumatism of
the right side, the patient turns his face to the right and inclines
It backwards. We then use only one hand, and place the
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