SACH-SAWCH

SACH / SAWCH This is a really important section. It is the starting point for unlocking disorders of walking. It asks: "If you can't undo what is wrong, can you work around it?" Or substitute? COMPENSATE ? The search for an answer led to so many things. It began with the realization that some hallowed thinking is just plain wrong. Junk. First to fall, shoe rocker bottoms for casts. Two very large manufacturers joined resources in this quest and vastly improved their products by shedding old assumption driven & patented nonsense. But, we begin, here, with war; soldiers coming home from WWII with amputations. Prosthetics. Peg leg? Just fill the gap? Starting with amputation, below the knees - to study what "below knee anatomy needs to do for us. Verne Inman and his associates (Ranchos Los Amigos) did great studies in that quest that had unknowingly duplicated lost studies of Braun & Fisher [from 1895] and which were forgotten in a massive underground catacomb like medical library in what had since become “East Germany”. The data of the B&F's studies had been deeply quoted by Steindler in his orthopaedic text book [without B&F being mentioned, leading to the repeated question " How did he know THAT ?” He described with dead accurate decimal places.

Unaware of the B&F 3D studies, Inman re-described the parameters of normal gait and then broke them down into aspects that - being considered from the functional side - either assisted a functionally normal pattern or not.