SACH-SAWCH

So, we have seen isolated left abnormality of foot structure manifest as abnormal right leg function. We have seen that invisible sensory things can fool us to misdiagnose motor problems (palsies). Here it comes – oooooo – much of what we see as wrong in cerebral palsy walking is neither cerebral nor palsy. We have a lot of ground to cover.

Before club foot was considered to be surgically amenable, such untreated feet served to torture the owner. Prosthetic mechanics outpaced club foot remedy and so prosthetics around the abnormality was used (man on left is standing on his well disguised right tip toe.). Women tended to prefer amputation of ugly dysfunctional actual feet to more cosmetic functional prosthetics. Recurring theme: We don't need the thing. We need what the thing should do.