Why Fixing Your Gait Starts With These 5 Movements

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of fundamental movement patterns in understanding gait and health.

Your gait—how you walk—can reveal a lot about your health, movement quality, and even your risk for injury or falls. In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray Cook and Lee Burton break down why gait analysis alone doesn’t tell the full story. Many people focus on the way someone walks, but the real problem often lies deeper in fundamental movement patterns like squatting, bending, rotating, balancing, and breathing. As our population ages, gait problems are becoming a major predictor of...

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Hosts: Gray Cook, Dr. Lee Burton

Topics covered

• gait analysis
• movement patterns
• health
• injury prevention
• aging

Keywords

• gait
• movement quality
• injury risk
• squatting
• breathing

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