Re: carlson mods?

Re: carlson mods?

Roy Bowers

9/4/1998

I'm glad Richard's been eddicated - I've just been confused.......

Is this really true? Are Carlson and Colson the same person? I have read the
article (Colson JM, Berglund G: An effective design for controlling the
unstable Subtalar Joint. Orthot Prosthet; 33 (1) 39-49, 1979) and frequently
reference it to students etc.

Am I naive to think that the spelling of the author's name is one of the
(few?) things we can actually believe in published articles?

Marty, (either Marty!?) are you out there?

Please confirm authorship. It's a good article - someone claim it!

Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: ecat < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: <Email Address Redacted> < <Email Address Redacted> >
Date: 04 September 1998 07:42
Subject: carlson mods?


>Well, I've been eddicated! Herewith are the replies that I received to my
>query about what these modifications entailed. Thanks to all who replied.
>Richard Ziegeler
>
>Richard:
> A Carlson modification is a Sustentaculum shelf modification, or S.T.
>mod. I don't know why he calls it the Carlson modification, Marty Carlson
>wrote a paper once and addressed the modification but I believe it has been
>done a lot longer than the article was written. Hope this helps!
> MMartinco
>
>Carlson mod appeared in a JPO (Journal or CPO [predecessors to the JPO])
>article about UCBL (University of California at Berkley Laboratory) foot
>orthosis authored by Colson Berglund. The Colson was a misspelling of
>Marty Carlson, CO's name.
>Bob
>Robert N. Brown, Sr. CPO
>CEO/R&D FLO-TECH® O&P Systems, Inc.
>PO Box 462 2071 Trumansburg Rd.
>Trumansburg, NY 14886
>800-356-8324
> <Email Address Redacted>
> <Email Address Redacted>
>
>This refers to Marty Carlson's advocacy of calcaneal grasping. To
>stabilize the calcaneous the cast is modified deeply under the sustenaculum
>tali. The Oregon orthosis folks promote a very similar modification
>technique. It is very effective.
>Ted A. Trower C.P.
>A-S-C Orthotics & Prosthetics
>Jackson, Michigan, USA
> <Email Address Redacted>
>
>My understanding is that Marty Carlson, CO from Minneapolis, Minnesota has
>been immortalized by having this modification named after him when he
>worked at Gillette Children's Hospital. The modification as taught at the
>Northwestern University Orthotics course in Chicago has a groove cut into
>the cast under the sustentaculum tali. This locks in the calcaneus
>preventing it from rolling into eversion.
>The original way that I was taught the modification was very drastic -
>carving a fairly deep groove into the cast. I've modified his modification
>myself by simply holding the calcaneous in neutral with my thumb pressed in
>under the sustentaculum tali and my thenar emminence into the longitudinal
>arch. This is a much more natural means of control than carving a groove.
>I do deepen the depression caused by my thumb in some cases as needed to
>increase control.
>I hope that someone else will offer documentation of the technique as I've
>never seen it myself. I do believe there is an article written about it.
>As this seems to be a logical means of controlling the calcaneous, I
>suspect that you use a similar technique in AU but call it something else.
>Perhaps someone down under is also immortalized?:-).
>Harold Anderson
>
>A paraphrase for J. Martin Carlson, CPO
>The reference is to the article:
>An Effective Orthotic Design for Controlling the Unstable Subtalar Joint,
>Orthotics and Prosthetics, Vol. 33, No. 1, PP 39-49, March 1979
>My Editorial: An excellent technique largely incorporated into many lower
>extremity orthoses in my clinical practice
>Good'ay
>JP Donovan, CPO
>
> <Email Address Redacted>
>