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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1947;29:203-214.
© 1947 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN LOCOMOTION ON THE BASIS OF MEASUREMENT

With Description of Oscillographic Method

R. PLATO SCHWARTZ M.D.1 and ARTHUR L. HEATH B.S.1

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester

This paper may be regarded as a progress report on a study of human locomotion which has been under way for twenty years.

The reason for this study is that improvement in the treatment of dysfunction in other fields of medicine has followed in the wake of a quantitative definition of normal function.

By the application of special resources, herein described, human locomotion has been recored. The normal characteristics have been measured, and the stance phase has been expressed in a single curve, as related to time and pressure.

Likewise, it has been shown that any significant dysfunction of human locomotion is characterized by a gross departure from the normal curve of the stance phase.

The application of these resources to clinical problems provides for the evaluation of therapeutic results on the basis of measurement instead of memory.


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