Flawed assumption references as requested
Thomas Cutler
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Title:
Flawed assumption references as requested
Creator:
Thomas Cutler
Date:
9/2/2018
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Hello List,
I’ve received several requests for references, so here’s a link to a powerpoint presentation with the references in an easily digestible format.
<URL Redacted>
I have highlighted critical sentences on scanned pages and provided links to articles where pertinent. This should provide indisputable evidence for any party willing to be intellectually honest.
I’m not blaming any one profession for this. With an interdisciplinary effort comes interdependence. Each profession has depended upon others who have provided them with false premises. Please note that surgeons base decisions on biomechanics. Biomechanists base their decisions on engineering, engineers base their decisions on physics, and physicists base their decisions on mathematics. If your math is unsound, you will find yourself constantly scrambling to justify or validate some elusive theory. You will deflect or dismiss or change the boundaries so that your house of cards won’t fall. Once you understand the flawed assumptions (and there are many), the landscape changes and you find yourself finally discussing the matter from terra firma. And how do you navigate your course back to the origins to find the flaws? By stepping into the role of the philosopher first, and only then followed by the scientist. My journey back to the origins had to occur first as a student seeking insight… and was only then followed by my systematic (science) development of the concept of a Unified Compound Lever (UCL), which is merely the first step for correctly understanding the hip, rather than a willfully ignorant representation of the hip as a simple teeter totter. Only after kinesthetically experiencing a UCL in an exercise of discovery do we apply that insight (the science) to understand why we do not experience uncontrolled acetabular divergence prior to skeletal maturity. (translation--- with the current hip model, we don’t know why any pre-fused concave hip socket doesn’t blow apart. This image should explain it: <URL Redacted> )
I close with two quotes from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” Time and again, I have been wrong and have checked my premises. The other is “Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own.” It is time to stop trembling and fix this problem to help the patients who count on us. Otherwise we should refer to this tremendous field of prosthetics and orthotics as an “endeavor” rather than as a “profession”.
Enjoy…
Thomas J. Cutler, CPO, FAAOP
Sent from Mail< <URL Redacted>> for Windows 10
I’ve received several requests for references, so here’s a link to a powerpoint presentation with the references in an easily digestible format.
<URL Redacted>
I have highlighted critical sentences on scanned pages and provided links to articles where pertinent. This should provide indisputable evidence for any party willing to be intellectually honest.
I’m not blaming any one profession for this. With an interdisciplinary effort comes interdependence. Each profession has depended upon others who have provided them with false premises. Please note that surgeons base decisions on biomechanics. Biomechanists base their decisions on engineering, engineers base their decisions on physics, and physicists base their decisions on mathematics. If your math is unsound, you will find yourself constantly scrambling to justify or validate some elusive theory. You will deflect or dismiss or change the boundaries so that your house of cards won’t fall. Once you understand the flawed assumptions (and there are many), the landscape changes and you find yourself finally discussing the matter from terra firma. And how do you navigate your course back to the origins to find the flaws? By stepping into the role of the philosopher first, and only then followed by the scientist. My journey back to the origins had to occur first as a student seeking insight… and was only then followed by my systematic (science) development of the concept of a Unified Compound Lever (UCL), which is merely the first step for correctly understanding the hip, rather than a willfully ignorant representation of the hip as a simple teeter totter. Only after kinesthetically experiencing a UCL in an exercise of discovery do we apply that insight (the science) to understand why we do not experience uncontrolled acetabular divergence prior to skeletal maturity. (translation--- with the current hip model, we don’t know why any pre-fused concave hip socket doesn’t blow apart. This image should explain it: <URL Redacted> )
I close with two quotes from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” Time and again, I have been wrong and have checked my premises. The other is “Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone’s work prove greater than their own.” It is time to stop trembling and fix this problem to help the patients who count on us. Otherwise we should refer to this tremendous field of prosthetics and orthotics as an “endeavor” rather than as a “profession”.
Enjoy…
Thomas J. Cutler, CPO, FAAOP
Sent from Mail< <URL Redacted>> for Windows 10
Citation
Thomas Cutler, “Flawed assumption references as requested,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 26, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/209139.
