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MADE UNDER RESISTANCE. 103
Fig. 66.
Stretching of the Vertebral Column.
I cannot remember having seen this movement used in
Stockholm, but my brother always employs it in curvatures of
the spine.
The patient stands as erect as possible, with his back against
the wall of the room (fig. 67). The operator stands in front of
him, and lays one hand on the patient’s head, while with the
other he steadies him. (The left hand in the figure is somewhat
awkwardly placed.) He now presses downwards, at the same
time that the patient is told to stretch upwards with all his
might. The top of the column being thus fixed, the short deep
muscles at the upper part of the back take their steady point
above, and so act from above downwards, while the lower ones
work from below upwards,
Tn a case of spinal curvature, the slips of the deeper dorsal
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