 A counter-argument against the prevailing view concerning the younger years is that it may actually be quicker and easier to restrengthen an older patient's musculature and regaining of walking may happen faster with an older patient due to the fact that the patient is fully matured and very aware of what is going on, and so may work harder and with more focus than might a young child.These two schools of thought have equally objectively valid bases for their formation and thus are each defended quite intensely by their respective proponents.In 1888, Robert Abbe in New York as well as W.H.