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...University of Rochester last week announced that its gait analyst. Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz, will build a race track on a farm which he has just bought overlooking the Genesee River. There Dr. Schwartz will walk, trot, single-step, lope and gallop horses on whose backs will be strapped an electric recording device which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph. This will show by means of wires attached to the hoofs, details of locomotion which the fastest cinema cameras have failed to catch. Eventually Dr. Schwartz "hopes to determine precisely what makes a good race horse...
...horse track will be the second field extension of a laboratory to study locomotion which Dr. Schwartz has conducted in the University of Rochester Medical School since 1926. His studies of foot problems as old as Xenophon's forced inarch across Asia Minor are original enough to have earned him a gold medal from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a bronze medal from the American Medical Association. And practical enough for a Rochester shoe manufacturer, Armstrong & Co.. to spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension...
...principle of "balance-in-motion" is relatively simple. By means of electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground...
Flat feet, according to Dr. Schwartz, are usually due to malalignment of the heel bone with the tibia (larger of the two long bones in the lower leg). Side swing of the heel throws all the muscles and tendons of the foot out of balance. "Since the tendons act as slings for the 26 bones of the foot," reasons Dr. Schwartz, "those bones then have a tendency to slip out of their anatomical arrangement...
...committee in charge is composed of Richard T. Davis '37, Martin D. Schwartz '37 and Felix Stumpf...