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Massage and the Original Swedish Movements

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

MASSAGE AND THE SWEDISH MOVEMENTS INTRODUCTION

EXERCISE IN THERAPEUTICS

MASSAGE AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT is divided into Introductory, General and Local.

PRESSING AND SHAKING (VIBRATIONS)

DETAILS OF TREATMENT

SWEDISH MOVEMENTS

DIVISION OF MOVEMENTS

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MOVEMENT TREATMENT

MECHANICAL ACTION OF MUSCLES

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APPLICATION OF MASSAGE AND THE SWEDISH MOVEMENTS TO VARIOUS DISEASES OF THE BODY

GENERAL WEAKNESS

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY

SPLANCHNIC NEURASTHENIA

AFFECTIONS OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS

CATARRH OF THE LUNGS

PHARYNGITIS AND LARYNGITIS

BRONCHITIS, NERVOUS ASTHMA, ETC.,

DISEASES OF THE HEART

DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS

HABITUAL CONSTIPATION

ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER

UTERINE AFFECTIONS

AFFECTIONS OF THE BLADDER

STIFF NECK

LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE

DEFORMITIES OF THE FEET

AFFECTIONS OF THE EYE

AFFECTIONS OF THE EAR

GENERAL REMARKS

THE MASSAGE TREATMENT IN AMERICA

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STIFF NECK

This affection is somewhat similar to lumbago and has been treated with like success. Begin with massage over the sterno-cleidomastoid and continue with pressing and shaking. A few (in the beginning passive) movements will finish the treatment. Though at first painful, the patient will in a few days be relieved by the treatment:

The following movements may be used:

1. S. or susp. bending of head.
2. S. turning of head.
3. S. rotation of head.