Massage & Exercises Combined: A permanent physical culture course for men, women and children; health-giving, vitalizing, prophylactic, beautifying; a new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements; with 86 illustrations and deep breathing exercisesJensen, Albrecht
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Massage & Exercises Combined: A permanent physical culture course for men, women and children; health-giving, vitalizing, prophylactic, beautifying; a new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements; with 86 illustrations and deep breathing exercises
Jensen, Albrecht
Exercise therapy; Massage
Reference is here made especially to massage exercise No. 10, and also
to Nos. 3 and 5. All the deep breathing exercises may be used. If the
patient is so weak that the trunk cannot be bent much, No. 10 may be
practiced first and Nos. 3 and 5 later. No. 10 can even be practiced by
patients confined to bed.
For dilatation of the stomach, chronic dyspepsia and conditions of
stasis, No. 10 is very beneficial, and may be used for ten or fifteen
minutes two or three times a day. It causes contraction of the stomach,
the pylorus is opened and the contents are emptied into the duodenum.
Sour and burning eructations, bad breath and taste in the mouth will
disappear. In these cases it is best to practice the exercise from four
to five hours after a meal. (The massage movements in No. 10 has been
taught by the author to several mothers from out of town, who have
applied them with success to their babies suffering from gas in the
stomach and indigestion caused by nervous disorders.)
In order to increase the flow of bile, pancreatic juice and the succus
entericus and to get a mixture of these, a well-known medical authority
in Europe massaged (stroking and pressing) the abdomen from the right
side toward the median line for about half an hour after the stomach
digestion had ceased. The average amount of the juices thus obtained in
each of twenty cases was from 40 to 50 c.c. This movement is included in
massage exercise No. 10 and also somewhat in exercises Nos. 3 and 5.
In a case of a dropped stomach or colon, a special movement of stroking
and pressing (especially with the fingers) may be used across the abdomen
in an upward direction, from each opposite side of the lower abdomen,
thus crossing the abdomen with each hand, alternately.
A good movement for breaking up adhesions in the region of the appendix
is stroking with the fingers of the right hand (pressing on top with the
left) upward over the appendix, the ascending colon and then continuing
over the transverse colon. For adhesions in the left side of the abdomen
a similar movement with the fingers of the left hand is recommended.
Massage exercises Nos. 10 and 3 are also here beneficial.
In order to relieve the bowels of their distension, one doctor in New
York advocated massaging the abdomen thirty hours after operations for
appendicitis and hernia.
DISORDERS OF THE LIVER
Reference is here made to massage exercises Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 14 and 14
A, as well as to all the deep breathing exercises.
They will stimulate the secretion of the bile from the blood and cause
readier transformation of excess sugar into glycogen.
The massage exercises are also beneficial for hepatic engorgement.
DIABETES
All the massage and deep breathing exercises are recommended for the
reason that they cause an increased oxygenation in all parts of the body
and will therefore help to prevent abnormal deposits of sugar.
AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS
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