ROM Resist & New Zealand

had not figured how to make the needed cardiac repairs grow with the patient. The patients were to be operated under local anesthetic with some plasma to offset anti coagulation. It was not to cure, but just make less so that they did not force too early a next cardiac repair. These kids did spectacularly well with so little done and frightening the tar out of us doing it! Then came a visitor from New Zealand whose parents had wind of this from a common (cardiac) patient at same rehab facility. Please. Six years of solid PT and no trace of walking. Mmmm... OK.

Preop on left. EMG is bouncing bar type (inset is a scribble equivalent for single frame discourse). He could not walk and needed to be held aloft. He collapsed after only a few highly assisted steps. At surgery, he didn't hold still the way cardiac patients always do. So, the obvious finding of bow-stringing semitendinosus was addressed first and that was all that that was needed to then emulate a supple swing phase (supine), our goal. Done. Like popping a balloon. We included our