MUD Mired in time...

Shortened stride length is the result conclusion of so many studies. Stride is shorter. This disease makes the stride length shorter. How? Why? No no. It just does. Close the lights. Go home. But wait 62% + 62% = 124%. Two legs swinging at once? What is that functionally a % of? Percent of time? Of length? Length of what? Do you feel it welling up and over your shoes? Let's begin again. This time we won’t just measure things because they are easy to measure. We want to know what does what ? And how much? And if not, then what else? When we see something is wrong, is what we see a bad thing to do? Or, maybe the next best choice? We go back to Verne Inman and his determinants – things that you can see that accomplish something positive . His goal was prosthetics for neurologically intact soldiers with missing leg parts. There is only one good outcome in the military – return to duty. For us it is RESTORATION of ability, to match our peers. Inman focused on what the whole body does. He sought (& found) the why. What does each thing that the body parts do together functionally that a prosthetic can also do (maybe in a different way or by different means)? Is the functional goal attained despite a missing part of the anatomy? ‘What is normal’ is a wrong question. What details of movement do good? Ah. Better.