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90 ACTIVE MOVEMENTS:
and must increase and decrease with the increase and decrease of
the muscular power.
In the free active movements, there is little or no isolation of
the muscles, but in the bound ones we can, of course, localize
them as much as we like.
The active movements are usually repeated three or four times.
I now pass on to describe a few of these exercises.
I. FREE.
Bending forwards and Raising of the Trunk, with
the Arms stretched up (fig. 55).
The patient either stands with his feet together, or he has
them apart a distance of 20 to 24 inches, as in the illustration,
Fig. 55.
in order to . secure a broader base, and with it more steadiness in
.the movement. The arms are stretched straight up, the distance
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