The Lingiad
An international gymnastics display, with 7,399 participants from twelve countries, was held in Stockholm in 1939 to commemorate the centenary of the death of Per Henrik Ling (1776–1839), the founder of Ling gymnastics. The ‘Lingiad’ enabled the participants to experience…
The Lumbar Shift Correction
Understanding how manual therapy techniques evolve over time deepens our grasp of clinical reasoning and safe application. Lumbar shift correction, also called lateral shift correction or “pig shift” in informal clinical slang (because the position replicates that when carrying a…