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Dear Listmembers, Gil Lieberman sent a most interesting post from Aliza's niece,Prof.Jan Bruckner, >author of: >The Gait Workbook(1998) >Jan is a Prof. of Physical Therapy and Anthroplology at Northeastern >Univ.,Boston. >She did her PH.D. research on studies of how early man learned to >walk,developing >four-dimensional computer models of walking patterns. > >She replied as follows: >Gil Lieberman,CG for Aliza >------- > >I am not familiar with the U-Step walker but we can try and find it on >the web. > Anything that widens ones base of support provides increased >stability. There are circular versions of walkers that people use with >infants who are pre-ambulatory which enable the child to be up-right >and move from place to place. The U-Step sounds like an adult version. Unless it has recently been listed, U-Step is not on the Web, because I am the Australian distributor for these U-Step Walking Stabilizers. The U-Step is manufactured by In-Step Mobility Products Corp., 8040 Ridgeway, Skokie Illinois, USA 60076. The company is owned by Jonathon Miller who designed the U-Step for his mother who had balance and gait problems due to a neurological disorder, and after he failed to find an adequate walker for her. Jonathon keeps promising to get on email/the web, but until then, you can contact him on Ph: 847 676 1202 or Fax 847 676 1202 800 558 7837 (free call in the USA) He can ship/send U-Steps anywhere. If you do contact him, please tell him that Joy Graham sent you! If you would like more information about the U-Step, I will gladly email you the last posting I made to the List on the subject (if you did not save it). You may be interested in Dr Abe Lieberman's (Medical Director National Parkinson Foundation & Executive Director Muhammad Ali Parkinson Research Centre, Phoenix, Arizona) comments on the U-Step: "I recommend the U-Step. It is useful for patients with balance problems because of its wide base." If there is anyone on the List who has a scanner and could scan a picture of the U-Step on to the Web for List members to access, I would gladly send you a photo! Sincerely Joy Graham