MUD Mired in time...

Do you want to easily experience what walking is like when momentum is dampened continually? Walk up steep stairs. We have adopted the name “stair climbing gait” for what many call crouch gait. The difference? Crouch is just a word for the obvious look. Stair climbing sheds light on what is actually happening – absent momentum. A most common example is spastic diplegia's medial rotation crouch gait. As if the brain is messed up into that abnormal pattern? No. This gait is the work-around for dampened momentum and gross energy loss. The crouch releases as much tension as possible short of collapse while generating a next best alternative. Single big wheel with short turn arcs (flat) centered over the floor rolling point (which requires equinus to center it).

This is NOT CP. It is an athlete dancer with the swing dampened by elastics. Gait labs suggested 'shark bite' surgeries and a variety of osteotomies and muscle/tendon fillets which were simply cured by removing the elastic gizmos dampening her swing inertia.