Cerebral Palsy maybe/maybe not

That girl is crouched with medially rotated legs, and walking on-toe with short steps. She is wearing sensors and some stuff of our making that does not block any of her joints, at all. Her final data with stick figures was seen by several gait labs & pundits. Her abnormalities were enumerated as were the joint angle curves well outside the normal standard deviation envelopes everybody was using (& still do). A list of open bone surgeries at the hips and shins and muscle surgeries were recommended. Though many variations, all sought to correct her documented deviations. Doing ‘shark bite’ was included (top to bottom big surgeries).

The reality is that the stuff we had on her was designed to dampen (defeat) the leg pendulums. Rob her energy. That’s it. Period. Oh, she was an international Irish Step Dancing championship level competitor. Not only was she not abnormal in a negative functional sense, whatever she did had to have been a solution to what we were doing to her .

These ‘abnormalities’ were solutions not disease and yet there was a universal ‘expert’ professional agreement to undo all of her well documented movement ‘abnormalities’ with multiple extensive surgeries. We did operate that evening by removing the rig. It took her two days to “get her legs back”. Although exhausted, she was our only test subject to finish our sequence of 9 levels of severity of inertia dampening (with 3 controls).

Oh, what about those publications that asserted that CP muscle must be metabolically abnormal based mostly on what was similar to all our test subjects? We have a place for them; the janitor empties it regularly.