Man's Gait Analysis Reveals He Has Been Walking Wrong His Entire Life

A routine gait analysis at the Portland Sports Medicine Clinic has revealed that 41-year-old accountant Greg Densmore has been walking incorrectly for his entire life, employing a stride pattern that lead kinesiologist Dr. Martha Flexion described as 'biomechanically impossible yet somehow functional.' 'His left foot lands at a 27-degree external rotation while his right foot pronates inward at an angle we've never recorded before,' Dr. Flexion said, reviewing motion capture data. 'His knees hyperextend on every step. His pelvis tilts in a direction our software doesn't have a label for. According to our models, he should fall over with every stride. He does not fall over. We cannot explain this.' Densmore, who came in for a routine evaluation after his wife noticed he 'walked weird,' has been walking this way since childhood with no pain, injuries, or complaints. 'I walk to work every day,' Densmore said. 'I've run three 5Ks. I go hiking. My feet are fine. My knees are fine. Everything is fine.' 'Nothing is fine,' Dr. Flexion countered. 'Everything about his biomechanics violates established principles of human locomotion. He should be in constant pain. The fact that he isn't is more concerning than if he were.' The clinic has invited Densmore back for additional testing, including 3D motion capture, force plate analysis, and what Dr. Flexion described as 'just watching him walk back and forth while we try to figure out what's happening.' Densmore has declined further appointments, noting that he has 'been walking fine for 41 years' and sees no reason to 'fix something that works.' 'It doesn't work,' Dr. Flexion said. 'It categorically does not work. And yet here he is, walking away from me right now, incorrectly, at a perfectly normal pace. I need to sit down.'