Patient making working with watch pieces in an Occupational Therapy workshop.
- VC295-i295263
- Item
- circa 1945
Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Back to work."
Patient making working with watch pieces in an Occupational Therapy workshop.
Handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Back to work."
Typed caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Besides learning a trade the convalescing soldier at Rhoads General Hospital, Utica, New York, can be of assistance in the welfare of wounded buddies. Here Corporal O. Arthur Rosen, 9751 Corona Avenue, Elmhurst, L.I., New York, is engaged in bookbinding in the Occupational Therapy Section of the Hospital. He rebinds books for the library and thus gains valuable finger and arm exercises." Official U.S. SIgnal Corps Photograph.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Darts - shoulder and elbow exercises."
Occupational Therapist leading an arm and shoulder remedial class.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Remedial Class - exercise for arms and shoulders."
Patients lifting sacks of various weights.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Graduated weight lifting for exercise and determination of fitness for work."
Patients working in the carpentry shop.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "A corner of the carpentry shop."
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Horseshoes - arm and back exercises."
Patient walking on a treadmill.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Treadmill - for instruction in proper heel and toe walking and exercise of leg muscles."
Occupational Therapist observing as two patients play "squeeze hockey."
Same as VC295273.
Occupational Therapist leading a hand remedial class.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Hand Class - special remedials using crutch ends as gripping exercisers."
Patient lying prone and rotating his arms in a circle using roller skates.
Patient hoisting a weighted sack using a rope hoist.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Abduction exerciser and tester."
Occupational Testing a patient's quadricept strength.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "The quadriceps tester - a system of levers with a weight beam to give pull of muscles in pounds."
Two patients using a bicycle-powered circular saw.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Circular saw run by bicycle power for quadriceps exercise."
Patient hoisting a 100-pound sack using a rope hoist.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Hoist for shoulder exercise, elbow and hand grip, a very easy way to increase exercise."
Patients using a bicycle-powered drill press.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Drill press run by bicycle power for leg exercise."
Patient completing quadriceps exercises using a pulley machine.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Quadriceps pulley exercise."
Occupational Therapist assisting a patient working on a motor.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Wrench and tool work on machines, for machinists."
Three patients climbing a wooden scaffold.
Typed caption attached to the photograph reads: "Ladder platform - exercise for men having to work under such conditions."