I hope some students are seeing in this message some beautiful raw
material for research.
Sarah Fern Striffler, PT
Netta Harries wrote:
> 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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