ROM Resist & New Zealand

The 'failed' constraint trials done much earlier were screaming this. But inertia – of perception – hid it. People with excellent nervous systems and healthy fit bodies seek to create symmetrical pendulums that can pass their energy back & forth … or energy gets lost. Disability isn't about what the person can do. It is about what they can sustain. In the constraint studies we saw that even in a well fitted nearly unpadded cylinder cast from groin to ankle we still get about 10 degrees of flexion in stance phase. The knee flexion of stance is driven strongly by inertia which is only only guided or deflected but not produced (except by the ileopsoas which is in the body – outside the leg like the mom, not in the swing, pushing the kid on the swing. Wheeeeeeeeee. But looking closer at what this young dancer did was mind blowing. There was NOTHING in or on the feet except sensors which had zero ill effect when tested. Medial rotation crouch gait? Really? With toe walking??

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