Medical Gymnastic

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Medical Gymnastics is a therapeutic treatment by systematic exercise of the organs forming the motor apparatus of the body.* These, again, consist of the skeletal muscles, which by their contractions convert the chemically stored energy into that of movement or position; of the bones, which act as levers for these movements; of the joints, in which the movements take place round definite axes; of the centrifugal motor nerve-elements, from which the motor impulses arise and are conducted; and of the centripetal sensory nerve elements, upon which also the form and steadiness of the movement depend. The physiological and therapeutic effects of medical gymnastics in the first place, of course, concern these organs, but through them affect the remaining parts of the organism, so that one can justly say that no organ remains unaffected by them. Medical gymnastics is used moreover in many cases for its therapeutic effect on organs other than those of the motor apparatus.

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