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click on this link if you are interested in the statistics of how using AT in your company can be cost effective.
‘Had a fabulous time dancing at the weekend with my new hips!’ so writes Susie one of my regular students who loves a quick chaissez and bee-bop over the dance floor. She’d not had hip replacements, but re-mapped where her hip joint was.
They are useful things, hip joints, particularly to realise the joint is not at the top of the hip bone but to the side of the groin, and it is from there the leg swings and moves. If you put your hand there and sit and stand a few times or just walk about you will feel the action of the hip joint. Many people believe the leg goes up as far as the top of the pelvis, and start to creat a false joint at the waist, bending from there as they sit down, bend down etc.
But from now on, if you’ve read this, you will never want to do that again! You will see in this photo a number of AT teachers working in ‘monkey’ which has hip-joint knowledge as a pre-requisite. (Thanks to Jann Gerry Aino and Rags who were helping out at ArtsEd that day with my MA students.
One of the things that we as AT practioner need is good solid science to back up our claims of efficacy and improvement in functioning. Colleagues in Cinncinatti have done this wonderfully well in a study working with surgeons using laparoscopy, who stand for long hours in awkward positions wielding their wand-like instruments whilst gazing down a view-finder.
Sadly can’t imagine that exciting experiment being carried over to UK with all the cuts going on. But you can read all about it on: