Correcting Sherrington's Gait Dysfunction With an Off the Shelf Knee Orthotic

Ihsan Balkaya; Eric L Altschuler

doi:10.33137/cpoj.v3i1.34528

Correcting Sherrington's Gait Dysfunction With an Off the Shelf Knee Orthotic

Can Prosthet Orthot J. 2020 Jul 15;3(1):34528. doi: 10.33137/cpoj.v3i1.34528. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ihsan Balkaya¹, Eric L Altschuler¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

This professional opinion describes the use of an off the shelf knee orthotic to correct the gait and functional mobility of a patient with hemisensory loss including proprioception following a stroke and provides supporting video. Interestingly, this case corrects a human analogue of a functional deficit found experimentally in monkeys in the 19th century by Mott and Sherrington.

Keywords: Genu recurvatum; Knee Orthotic; Proprioception; Sherrington.