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With an overall combined 45+ years of clinical / medical experience in addition to extensive teaching and lecturing experience heavily weighted in biomechanics, neurology, orthopedics, manual medicine, acupuncture, advanced gait and running knowledge,  Dr. Ivo Waerlop (summitchiroandrehab.com) and Dr. Shawn Allen (doctorallen.co & shawnallen.net) are finally bringing what has long been needed to the information/web age, that being enough knowledge and experience to help clarify the truths and dispel the myths that are abundant on the internet and in seminar halls. We are proud to keep our views and opinions on various products truthful and unbiased for the sake of searching for the facts, uncovering the truth and dispelling myths put upon consumers.

This is one of our favorite things to do, podcast.  Every 2 weeks we gather some important information on breaking developments in neuroscience, research, and clinical practice and we sit down and talk for an hour. This podcast has grown faster than either of us expected. We have listeners in countries all over the world. Last time we checked we were in over 90 countries and in places we did not even think spoke, let alone understood, the english language. It is cool to have listeners in Russia, Tasmania, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Chille, Ireland, UAE, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Australia, China and the list goes on. We will never get to many of those countries to lecture but it is exciting to know that the internet has brought our voices that far. All you need to do is "Google" us and you will find all the different places where our podcast has been uploaded.  Search "podcast the gait guys". You can always find us on iTunes and download us to your phone or laptop.  We recently started loading them up to our YOUTUBE Channel and SoundCloud. Our thousands of self-authored articles can always be found on our Facebook, Twitter and TheGaitGuys.com   

Enjoy ! 

-Shawn and Ivo



May 2, 2013

Today’s show notes:

1. Neuroscience Piece:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)01479-1

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/01/131050832/a-mystery-why-can-t-we-walk-straight

Today we have a neuroscience piece on “turning”, in a matter of speaking. So why, when blindfolded, can’t we walk straight?
These “Turning” field studies appear in Chris McManus’ book, Right Hand, Left Hand, The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures (Phoenix, 2002). 

NPR Story Produced by Jessica Goldstein, Maggie Starbard.

2. neuroscience 2 at the end of the show.

The myth of the 8 hour sleep

3. Blog reader asks:
Any shoe recommendations for an uncompensated forefoot varus?

4. and another from the Blog:

Hi The Gait Guys, what can I do to regain medial tripod? I have a forefoot varus and when I am standing it compensates and my rearfoot everts and gets valgus. I have been having some pain lately and it is annoying me a lot. Please help. Thank you.

5. FACEBOOK readers asks:

Bringing the Foot Back To Life: Restoring the Extensor Hallucis Brevis Muscle. http://youtu.be/1iZg_e4veWk

6. PUBMED

Foot loading patterns can be changed by deliberately walking with in-toeing or out-toeing gait modifications.

Gait Posture. 2013 Apr 25. pii: S0966-6362(13)00190-2.

7. The Gait Guys are always talking about ankle rocker, dorsiflexion strength and the importance of the anterior compartment of the lower leg. Here is another study to add fuel to our fire.

Ankle dorsiflexor strength relates to the ability to restore balance during a backward support surface translation Gait & Posture

8. Shoes:

NB new Minimus 10V2

The Minimus 10 is back - and better than ever. The MR10v2 is the latest version of the previous Minimus Road 10,

9. http://www.runnersworld.com/health/study-one-third-female-marathoners-report-breast-pain
Study: One-Third of Female Marathoners Report Breast Pain

10. Painkiller meds taken before marathons

http://www.labspaces.net/127827/Painkillers_taken_before_marathons_linked_to_potentially_serious_side_effects

from the British Medical Journal

11. The myth of the 8 hour sleep

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service