Musculo-skeletal   [back to the Category]

Prevention   [read the french version]

Author :   Docteur Anne Thiescé

It is obvious that certain steps must be taken in order to avoid spinal problems.

- Instructors must control lordosis by insisting that the chest be stretched and that the turn-out is practised from the hip.

- Children's ages and growth years must be taken into account when practising "adages".

- Supplementary exercise programmes in order to increase abdominal strength and to teach self-growth.

- Good lifting technique training.

- Adequate limbering-up exercises not forgetting that adding layers of woollen garments does not count as limbering-up exercises.


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