Affected leg of the floor either with knee flexed and foot back, or with knee extended and foot in front. 3. Patient needs to take short hop with unaffected leg, pushing onto walker with arms to take the weight with the hop. -requires better balance & PWB, more closely simulated normal gait b/c opposite lower and upper ext. 3. weight is shifted to crutches and partially to extremity, and unaffected limb advances. 2.
When you have a special ability, you can say you're endowed with it. You can also be endowed with a quality, like beauty. Endowed is often used to describe something you're born with, though it can also refer to something that's been learned. Endowed traditionally meant provided with money, especially when it came to a woman's dowry, the money she brought into a marriage.
Endowment. A transfer, generally as a gift, of money or property to an institution for a particular purpose. The bestowal of money as a permanent fund, the income of which is to be used for the benefit of a charity, college, or other institution. A classic example of an endowment is money collected in a fund by a college. The college invests the endowment so that a regular amount of income is earned for the school.