MUD Mired in time...

So, maybe we stop calling it ‘abnormal’ (not a bell shaped match to an age population at large). Maybe, instead, we call it “stair climbing” gait, which is essentially what it is (though missing a catchy name) – the millennia old concentric way to get any muscle job done minus any energy saving tricks. Hey, I just crawled out of the ocean. I don’t have land tricks yet. The above marathoner is toe walking with very short steps, that are inwardly rotated and with a quite obvious crouch. It is exactly similar to spastic diplegia even in the emg recordings which looked obviously spastic - though not actually so. This is NOT a spastic person. This mud is an avalanche. The key abnormality is not to be found in the RANGE of any joint motion. It is in the energy cost of the range that is still being used and is measurable. (In the book Range vs Resistance we will beat this into you. Maybe wear padding for that book). OK? Another?