This is a good moment to list the many gifts that Merton Root D.P.M. provided the functional lower extremity world and the foot and postural suffering world with as a tribute to his greatness and the importance of his work, lest we forget.
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1. Replaced the arch support with the orthotic
2. Developed common biomechanical language
3. Developed a pathological foot diagnostic classification
4. Invented the STJ Neutral Paradigm
5. Developed a paradigm for understranding rearfoot to forefoot relationships
6. Developed principles for posting when prescribing orthotics
7. Took biomechanics into the laboratory
8. Created reasons for inspecting and understanding kenesiology, kinematics and kinetics when it comes to diagnosing and treating feet
9. Placed Podiatry on the map at the top of the Biomechanical Pyramid
10. Created Subtalar Neutral Casting
11. Developed Laboratory Protocols for fabrication of orthotic from negative plaster models
Hail to The Chief
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The greatest gift he gave was the challenge, to understand the concept and apply it to the uniquness of the person.
His inspiration has allowed my research in functional anatomy of the cuboid to stay on track
Alex Adam -
A timely thread! :good:. Whatever we may think in terms of recent developments Drs Root Orion and Weed (lets not forget them!) were the ones who raised our eyes from the vagueries of Arch Supports to the Science of the Sub talar joint.
If biomechanics are evolving, this work marked the first of the animals to drag themselves from sea onto the land and try to get the tricky business of legs worked out!
This was the model T ford, the Wright Bro's first aeroplane, Fleming's special fungus!
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Robert -
Internationally, what about: Arthur Steindler; Verne T. etc etc
To me, Rootian biomechanics as published by Merton and Colleagues is more analogous in evolutionary terms to the dinosaurs; a side branch that flourished for a while and then died out. Think crocodiles and sharks....... bit's still remain, but other aspects have "died out" and been superseded, for good reason. Survival of the fittest.Last edited: Apr 23, 2009 -
A.W. Swallow: here he is: http://www.members.feetforlife.org/download/6742/Chelsea-School-of-Chiropody-part-4.pdf
Along with Theodore Coates, Dave Ashcroft and above all Lew Russell- my old boss, a great man who taught me much- not least the things you could do with plastazoate!!! A true lab man, who experimented with doped cellulose and "played with" the early thermo-setting plastic orthoses and early silicone sheeting (way too oily- right?). Always willing to tell me about the old days and share his wisdom when we were down in the lab together (I suspect, straight down your boulevard Robeer). Lew, I learned much more from you than you'll ever know, you too John F.Last edited: Apr 23, 2009 -
I still think this should be a bigger part of undergrad training! A lot of graduates escape uni without knowing whats involved in making an orthotic and i'm sure that affects how we think when prescribing. Nothing like getting covered in glue and plaster to bring you back down to earth!
I'll have a look at that article, sounds interesting!
Regards
Robert -
How can you prescribe if you don't understand manufacture? Moreover, how can you trouble-shoot if you don't know what was done?
Too many people in it for the money, too many people who haven't got a clue. One of my local "reps" for a lab is someone I taught as an undergraduate- she was absolutely rubbish when it came to appliances- and biomechanics in general. Now she is trying to sell orthoses to me. Frankly, I'd rather eat my own ****. -
Whitman, Royal: Observations of forty-five cases of flat-foot with particular reference to etiology and treatment. Boston Med. Surg. J. 118:598, 1888.
Whitman, R: The importance of positive support in the curative treatment of weak feet and a comparison of the means employed to assure it. Am. J. Orth. Surg. 11:215-230, 1913.
Whitman, Royal: A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery. 6th Edition. Lea & Febiger, Philadephia, 1919.
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