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...Miss Worthingham pinch-hit for Margaret Jewell, instructor of physical education in San Jose (Calif.) State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable...
...This," declared Catherine A. Worthingham, San Jose physiotherapist, "demonstrates that the girl who wishes to dance is self-motivated. She knows that she must have strong, sensitive feet; that her body balance must be so perfected that she can stand, move, change direction or position at any time with poise and ease; that her readiness for movement must mean control and decision rather than nervous anticipation. Sagging abdominal muscles, rigid or weak backs have no place in a dancer's body...
...Miss Worthingham was vice president of the American Physiotherapy Association which was holding its annual convention in Los Angeles last week. Purpose of that body is to register men and women technicians who, under orders of a regular physician, treat "disease by non-medical means, comprising the use of physical, chemical and other properties of heat, light, water, electricity (except Roentgen Rays, Radium and Electrosurgery), massage and exercise...
...Worthingham, J W, 45 Thayer
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