Physical therapists have taught me how to walk again two times now.The thing that really stuck with me after my first acl was that the therapist coached me specifically in walking downhill. She said that landing on a straight leg was part of the cause of my problem. So she wanted me to walk downhill in a particular way, consciously putting my foot down on a bended knee and tensing my hamstring as I did so to control any tendency for motion in the knee. I still remember that and do it to this day, 26 years later.
I boiled my thermometer, and sure enough, this spot, which purported to be two thousand feet higher than the locality of the hotel, turned out to be nine thousand feet LOWER. Thus the fact was clearly demonstrated that, ABOVE A CERTAIN POINT, THE HIGHER A POINT SEEMS TO BE, THE LOWER IT ACTUALLY IS. Our ascent itself was a great achievement, but this contribution to science was an inconceivably greater matter.
--MT--
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