ROM Resist & New Zealand

Plan B. Create a very long spoke for a very big wheel, but crouch enough to get some of the dampening down. Medially rotate to further diminish the elastic pull on the tibia (at the 'pes'). And . . . toe walk ! ?? Huh? W W Why? Because a wheel needs its axis at the center. A forefoot rollover makes a 'cam' – a valve LIFTER (we are avoiding lifting). Plantar flexion is adds more length without more tension and, more importantly, it moves the roll center to wheel center. Gotta hold that wheel spoke intact without wobble.

Co-contraction. Now about this time we were already into doing lengthening with minimal exposure as it was designed to handle congenital cardiac based CP (tetralogy and such). The children turned blue with walking. It was life threatening as back then the cardiac repairs were staged over time as they