Sex efficiency through exercises : special physical culture for women / by Th. H. van de Velde ; [photos, by E. Steinemann].
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- Publication/creation
- London : W. Heinemann, Medical Books, 1933, ©1932.
- Physical description
- xvii, 163 pages 54 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
- Contributors
- Velde, Theodoor H. van de 1873-1937.
- Notes
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"With 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations"
Includes cinematographic supplement of 12 flip films illustrating exercises
- Subjects
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Women's Health
Physical Fitness
Exercise
- Attribution and usage
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Wellcome Collection
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as possible to one side and back. The patient supports her
hands firmly on her hips. Turn left and right alternately,
but very slowly.
Note.—Even in this wholly passive form, the turning
exercise has merits, but it is even more important if it can
be carried out as a form of resistance to pressure. It may
contribute greatly to the recovery and tonicity of certain
groups of muscles, which have hitherto been, perforce,
neglected.
(b) Active.—The pelvis is kept motionless, in the same
way as described under (a) ; then the upper portion of the
trunk is turned alternately, so far as possible to the right
and to the left. This must be done slowly, for all swings and
jerks are to be avoided.
(28) Leg Raising Sideways (Fig. 41).
The patient stands in front of a table supporting herself
by the edge. First initial position : then one leg is raised
sideways very slowly and stretched at full length. The
patient should be careful not to bend her body sideways
above the waist in order to balance the leg. Practice
alternately left and right.
Note.—After all leg exercises (whether lifting and lowering,
rotation or the " Scissors," etc.), there should be special
suppling or relaxation movements. It is perhaps best for the
patient to lie on her back and shake her legs, lifting them
and kicking gently " like a beetle on its back," and her arms
may take part in the same movements. Otherwise, she can
easily get muscular pains and cramp, and has not the
organic refreshment which should be the result of gym-
nastics, and which can only be afforded by a due rhythmic
balance of tension and relaxation.
I would cite the following further exercises for this
puerperal phase, i.e., after the first fortnight : Nos. 3, 6, 7,
10 and 11 (as originally described on p. 109 and shown in
Fig. 29) and 12 of the Pregnancy Group (Chapter XIII.).
Arm exercises, extension, flexion, lifting, lowering, for-
wards, sideways and upwards—with deep breathing—may