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''This exercise done five times will take about ten seconds. If counting each time when commencing to stroke each shoulder, it will be ten counts.''

Men may stroke downward over the chest as far as the diaphragm, if desired.

Women should only stroke as far as the breasts, and not over them.

Analysis and Effects of the Combined Massage Exercise No. 12

This exercise is combined in such a way that there is obtained the movements of the arms together with massage of the shoulders and the upper chest.

The movements of the arms and hands, in applying the massage movements, exercise the muscles and nerves of the arms, the shoulders, the upper back and the upper chest.

The massage influences the muscles, vessels and nerves of the shoulders and the upper chest. It increases the flow of blood to the muscles surrounding the lungs.

This exercise, like No. 2, is especially beneficial for stiffness in the shoulders and upper chest, resulting from golf or other over-exertion in kindred sports.