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.
foundation late 14c., action of founding, from L. fundationem (nom. fundatio) a founding, from fundatus, pp. of fundare (see found (1)). The L. word is glossed in O.E. by staÃ¾ol. Meaning that which is founded (a college, hospital, etc.) is from 1510s; meaning funds endowed is early 15c. Sense of solid base of a structure is from late 15c. Tie to the foundation thread of the first oval of the first circle.