GHORT

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Evening all,

Does anyone have any literature on GHORT? I've had a look around and can find precious little about it.

Thanks in advance

JB

 

I've only ever come across it (him?) in Valmassey's book

 

I use it as a short-hand for gait assessments in clinic. Like Ian said, there's a chapter in Valmassy on it. I think it was by Notty Bumbo, but could be wrong.

 

Charles "Chip" Southerland, DPM, one of my CCPM classmates invented it. He wrote about it in a chapter in Valmassy's textbook where I had a chapter on troubleshooting orthoses. I've never heard anyone lecturing on it except Chip. GHORT is simply a shorthand graphical method of noting gait abnormalities, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Thanks for replying folks.
I just found it interesting that with the level of scrutiny on everything we use these days, there is nothing on this at all. Especially when one of the fields is NCSP and that is something we dont measure anymore.
Cheers
JB

 

There generally is only scrutiny on things that are used by a fair number of people. I don't know anyone that uses GHORT in their gait evaluation of patients.

 

I do, simply as a way of shorthand notation.

 

You're the first one I know that said they actually use it, other than Dr. Southerland. Anyone else use GHORT?

 

There's some stuff hereThere's some stuff here http:// http://books.google.ch/books?id=URLTAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=GHORT+foot+evaluation&source=bl&ots=G5eZFJMSKK&sig=A5yKspbhGqrlPZyF0_PjPKU-MTI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nUVKU-2ZOcGp7Abjw4DIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=GHORT%20foot%20evaluation&f=false

 

I used it quite often for a while- pretty sure I picked up up from the Valmassy book. Don't use it much now, partly because nobody else does but mainly because of the electronic notes I use- harder to do scribbles.

 

At the podiatry departement of Ghent we also teach GHORT analysis as an educational tool. Otherwiese, students tend to focus mainly on 'the foot' and forget the overall view.

Cheers,
Joris