dear nechama,
as i mentioned before, i could not find any research on the subject, only
opinions, so your guess is as good as mine. "from personal experience" after
long years with children in the rehabilitatin area and also orthopedic
clinics, i have seen a lot of "neurolocicaly all right" young adults and
children with intoeing gait, with or without knee problems. no one could
tell the reason for sure (for the excessive internal rotation as measured in
the clinic versus the small external rotation). on the other hand i saw a
lot of totaly involved c.p patients, who never spent a minute in w-sitting,
with extreme internaly rotated hips and clinically measured as the above.
for the diplegic c.p children, who use the w for function, there are a lot
of pros and cons, and people "feel" and "think" and decide as they
"believe".
Netta Harries
pediatric P.T
ISRAEL
>From: Nechama Karman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: w-sitting
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:23:40 -0400
>
>Dear Netta,
>
>There seem to be no citations on this website after the first line... I
>definitely wonder where the statement that it is not caused or worsened by
>"w" sitting comes from (sources are important, is this simply the....
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