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To determine the effect of the swing-through crutch-walking gait on shoulder degeneration, 20 shoulders were examined in ten patients who had used the swing-through gait for a mean of 8.7 years. No degenerative changes were found in the 20 examined shoulders either clinically or radiographically. A special X-ray view was determined to assess potential degenerative changes. The patients showed a mean increase in the forearm bone density as a result of their crutch-walking gait.
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Wing, P., Tredwell, S. The weightbearing shoulder. Spinal Cord 21, 107–113 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1983.16
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