TightRope Walking

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Many people with incomplete spinal injuries can improve significantly
with enough programmed and correct walking exercises.

After visiting so many different clinics and rehab centres in the last 9 years
I wasn't able to improve to walk without high rolling walker (cart) and knee braces* but I have witnessed so many people with incomplete injuries who
made a difference and successfully recovered to any form of independent walking.
They were usually exposed to some kind of "torture" of certain amount of repetition, hours, days, monts and years of very hard walking exercises.
They were passing through pain and spasm barriers to achieve better mobility.
Unfortunatelly some never find a time to share some very valuable tips here.

After all, one thing is certain - If there is no enough repetitions, not enough walking, not correct techniques, less chance to make it.

Recently, Dr. Wise provide detailed explanation about Kunming military hospital in China experience in extreme walking exercises 6:6:6 (6 hours per day / 6 days per week / 6 months) and techniques of "pulling rope to lock a knee walking".
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The whole concept is explained as necessary physio treatment after cell or decompretion surgery but there was note that this type of walk & physio also helped a lot to many patients without any cell or surgery threatment.

There is Dr. Wise's observation of Chinese doctor's preferences not to use gait walking techniques, treadmill or braces and to push body to "figure out" how to recover @ most natural way.
(In one clinic in Bosnia they beleive in crawling as begining of recovery process).

My idea is to use this thread to ask members to post anything related to standing & walking exercises and particularly to walking technique with pulling rope to lock the knee. (tightrope walking - pardon my imagination ) so we can apply some tips for our daily exercises.

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I am just coping Dr. Wise's reply to my question in Cure Forum about connecting someone from hospital in China performing program 6:6:6 about "some fine tweaks and details related to individual needs where PT with experience in this type of walking can help a lot answering to specific member questions. I have suggested to Dr. Wise to hook-up someone from Kunming with more time and specific knowledge to Exercise & Recovery forum. I know that language is barrier but simple q&a can be easily google-translated."

Originally Posted by Wise Young

Comad,

Please understand that this is work of Dr. Hui Zhu and her colleagues. She recently retired (required due to age) from the Army General Hospital in Kunming and is in the process of moving to a private hospital in Kunming. The details of the training procedure that you are asking have not been published in English. I am not sure that they have been published in Chinese either. Dr. Zhu developed and applied these methods to thousands of patients. Yes, she has videos of individual patients but this is not the same as instructional materials.

At ChinaSCINet, we have been doing our best to help them gather the evidence that intensive walking helps restore function and to introduce their method to other doctors. Over the past several years, I have brought many doctors and people from the community to observe. One member of CareCure will be spending time there to help translate and to make it easier for families to visit. We have even brought doctors from Kunming to Rutgers to speak in our Open Houses.

At the present, there is nobody in Kunming with sufficient knowledge of English to answer questions of the type that you want to ask. I also want to suggest that this is asking a lot for any group to do and they will be criticized for doing so because their walking procedure is considered experimental. So, please be patient. I think that as soon as Dr. Zhu and her colleagues are settled in the new hospital and restarts her program, they will welcome visitors and perhaps people can help translate and transfer technology.

Wise.