Description
Contents
- The Problem of Chronic Medicine
- Body Types
- The Intermediate Type–Slender and Stocky Types–Differentiation of Types–Postural Differences
- Differences in Physiologic Processes–susceptibility to Disease–Anatomic and Functional Features
- Body Mechanics
- General Considerations–The Bones–The Chest–The Diaphragm–The Abdominal Viscera
- Developmental Deformities
- The Head–The Thorax–The Spine–The Extremities
- Backache and Other Spinal Strains
- Backache–Other Spinal Strains
- The Circulatory System
- The Heart and Diaphragm–The Vascular System
- Angina Pectoris and Postural Emphysema Related to Obesity – William J. Kerr FACP
- Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera
- Position of the Organs and Vessels–The Diaphragm–The Liver-The Pancreas–The Spleen
- The Stomach–The Duodenum–The Small Intestine–The Caecum–The Kidneys–The Pelvis
- Illustrative Cases with Visceral Disturbances
- Case 1–Apparent Diabetes Mellitus in a Child.
- Case 2–Diabetes Mellitus in an Elderly Woman with Gangrene of the Foot.
- Case 3–Cyclic Vomiting, Congenital Visceroptosis, Imperfect Poise, Malnutrition.
- Case 4–Abdominal Pain, Floating Kidney, Appendicitis, Postoperative Adhesions, Backache, Congenital Visceroptosis.
- Case 5–Chronic Backache, Visceroptosis, Gastric Ulcer, Gall Bladder Disease.
- Case 6–Chronic Backache, Myocarditis, Hypothyroidism, Subnormal Temperature, Visceroptosis.
- Case 7–Chronic Backache, Intercostal Neuralgia, Gastric Ulcer, Extreme Visceroptosis, Malnutrition, Carcinoma, Peripheral Circulatory Disturbances
- Diseases of the Nervous System
- Changes in Structure–Circulatory Disturbance–Venous Drainage–Divisions of the Nervous
- System–Vegetative Nervous System–Illustrative Cases: Multiple Sclerosis with Extreme Disability
- Multiple Sclerosis with Diplopia; Very Faulty Body Mechanics, Multiple Sclerosis
- Faulty Body Mechanics With Slowly Increasing Disability, Muscular Atrophy
- Chronic Arthritis
- Causes–Treatment–Atrophic (Rheumatoid, Proliferative) Arthritis–Hypertrophic Arthritis
- Illustrative Cases: Atrophic Arthritis, Still’s Disease; Atrophic Arthritis in Childhood, Atrophic Arthritis with
Psoriasis, Atrophic Arthritis with Subcoracoid Bursitis, Hypertrophic Arthritis of Spine, Hips, and Knees, with
Visceroptosis, Osteitis Deformans (Paget’s Disease), Osteitis Deformans
- Treatment
- General Considerations–Supports and Braces–Muscle Re–Education–Exercises
- The Foot
- General Consideration–Shoes–Exercises
- Public Health Aspects of Body Mechanics