ROM Resist & New Zealand

OK. Our new lab. Dr. Michael Polchaninoff, an electrical engineer and podiatrist, is interested and will handle the engineering issues (which turned out to be all electrical – right up his alley). We will create a well fitted sticky suit (won't shift on skin) that blocks no

joints. It will be an anchor for elastics that will be applied so as to dampen movement. Subjects should be healthy. First, test on adults who can tell us what they are experiencing medically (resident doctors). First subject is a young Seton Hall resident in orthopedics who ‘jogs religiously’ (a Seton Hall joke – get it?).

Room was a large teaching room. About 30 x 40 ft. Infrared beams track the subject and turn on the emg data dump to the computers as the subject enters and then passes out of the camera viewing part of the walkway – about 12 feet of viewed walking. Also testing optimum backdrop color with paper backdrops (before painting the place). We'll try an easy one first. Semitendinosus. Elastic from ishium to pes on upper anteromedial tibia. The elastic is marked incrementally to use pre walk stretching measurement of the resist properties. By feel we are seeking what feels similar to kids walking with CP.

As we use emg live as we test CP slow & fast passive motion we have, we think, a pretty good idea of how that stretch should feel.