ROM Resist & New Zealand

to merely STRAIGHTEN what we see? As with 1920s clubs the issue was somewhat cosmetic but even more so - FUNCTIONAL. Motion data? 99% is angles and distances. If there is 60 degrees of contracture [missing range of movement] then it is 60 degrees of bad, as it might seem. Less range is bad. More range is good. Even more range is good-er? Ahh. So much is said about mechanical (constraint) issues that NEUROLOGIC based abnormality gets this kind of short shrift. That the contracture (missing range) isn't a single thing like a nail or a screwdriver, it is a hodgepodge of things each adding to the overall loss of functional movement and to the perceived stoppage noted when put through range of motion exams. Mechanical concepts are so easy to visualize, whereas neurological mechanisms are so...so, so neurological! The brain! Trillions of synapses. It even allows a person with a small focal brain injury to not recognize half of their own body? Really? Like that. Off putting. Seeking answers we tend to dwell on what we can mentally visualize. Consider that everything real about you, that YOU SEE, is mentally seen. It is in your head – neural stuff representing what is out there. Not to beat a dead horse, but getting a grip on how the brain conjures woe or happiness can send you in so many wrong directions. And indeed it has. We are here to erase what we thought we learned from experience (somebody else’s) looking at cerebral palsy and to revisualize it better with new observations, with tight control on what is being seen. The idea was simple. Use normals and layer on things that would make the normals look and act like cerebralpalsy. Really. How hard could THAT be?