3+ 4/2002 - Společnost pro pojivové tkáně

8. Bending avoids vascular danger and
straightens thoracic curve better.
Figure 12.
During bending, the left shoulder rises,
not as a result of a pressure upwards
(there is none), but of a pressure toward
right side. Left shoulder migrates along
a part of a circle around the upper edge
of the right thoracic pressure part 1. It
avoids that way to put in danger the vessels
and nerves of axilla. In 1999, we had
increased bending up to a value which
was no more compatible with the general
balance of the body in brace. So that
the patient, straightening up, pushed the
lower part of brace towards right side.
Now we have reduced the bending to
the value of figure 12.
Figure 13
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Figure 12a Figure 12b
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9. Anti-gravitational effect. See figure
12 again.
Please notice, that the right shoulder is
lower, and that the cervico-thoracic curve
remains. But as a result of a marvellous
sense of balance, the patient corrects
spontaneously those asymmetries. Right
shoulder raises and the cervico-thoracic
curve corrects spontaneously and an
active way within 10 minutes or a few
days. Anti-gravitational effect plays also
a role at the level of pelvis, where it
restores a complete balance. Only experience
could state such providential effects.
THORACIC LEVEL: HOW
TO PLACE PRESSURE PADS
Figure 13. It shows, left what has
not to be done,and right what has to be
done. Left, pressing at rib apex along
the axis of rib leads only to a worsening
of the lumbar curvature. Pressing on
lumbar apex, but also on iliac crest
leads to a worsening of the right protrusion
of pelvis. Right: Press at level of
all (four) apexes. This girl and others
reached a complete correction of
Cobb's angles, rib state, rotation and
wedge shape.