Open AccessIn which hand to take the cane? (Dialogue between an orthopedist and a biomechanic)
Author(s) -
V. E. Belenky,
Г. В. Куропаткин
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
vestnik travmatologii i ortopedii imeni n.n. priorova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6738
pISSN - 0869-8678
DOI - 10.17816/vto105101
Subject(s) - point (geometry) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , moment (physics) , medicine , computer science , psychology , physical therapy , mathematics , physics , geometry , classical mechanics
Orthopedist. In our previous conversation, when we talked about gentle claudication, you said that the patient chooses the optimal walking conditions for himself.Biomechanic. Yes, it minimizes (as much as possible) the pain that occurs when you load the leg.О. But by unloading the diseased leg, it overloads the healthy leg. And with a chronic process, the healthy leg will eventually become sore, too. Then what kind of "optimum" are we talking about?B. That's right. We call optimal the regime that suits the organism the most at a given moment. The patient doesn't know what will happen to him tomorrow, but today he successfully solves the problem - he walks the distance from point "A" to point "B" with minimal pain.