To all interested in a more complete biomechanical model of the foot:

It appears to me that we have been somewhat stuck in our thinking on
Podiatric biomechanics.  We rely on concepts many developed in the 1940's.
Some believe these concepts are correct and others do not believe are
correct.

What Chris, Jay and I are trying to do is either prove the concepts right
or wrong to bring Podiatric biomechanics out of all the stalemate theories
through research.  We relize that the machine we are using has
limitations.  That is because we are building a first of its kind.
Somehow, podatric biomechanics was able to skip over the natural
progression of theory, research, and then to results and we jumped from
theory to results.  It would have been like the Wright brothers going from
theory to the space shuttle.

What we are hoping is that we can bring everyone together to determine what
problems we need to solve and then build an improved device capable of over
coming most of the limitations of this first device to solve the problems.
A device to replicate the human body will never be perfect because the body
is such a complicated structure and because each individual is different.

Thank you for your great interest in our research.

Erin Ward

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