A youthful gait and posture contributes to the appearance of health and youthfulness, every bit as much as the appearance of things like your skin and teeth. I often saw patients between the ages of 50 and 80, who complained of walking like their Granny, and they didn’t know how or when it happened. Sometimes a family member noticed. “Dad, you’re walking like Peepaw!” Patients who develop a limp after an injury or the acute onset of a disease process are well aware of the source, but the rest of us can develop it insidiously…a slow creep…and then it’s there. I like to talk about recognizing the onset of your…