Helping maintain your active lifestyle.
Dr. Shaker started the Shaker Spine & Sport Institute in 1990. During his 22 year career he has accumulated over six (6) post-graduate certifications in Sports Medicine, Exercise Rehabilitation, Strength Training and Neuromuscular Assessment and Function. This unique training has provided Dr. Shaker with modern knowledge to provide contemporary care to his patients.
Dr. Shaker focuses in a wide variety of neuromusculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries. During his 18 year tenure, Dr. Shaker has trained with some of the world's finest luminaries in neuromuscular skeletal medicine. These specialized physicians and therapists are experts in the various fields of neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, chiropractic, osteopathy, athletic training, physical therapy, strength and conditioning and exercise rehabilitation. As an athlete, Dr. Shaker brings a unique perspective to the treatment of sports injuries.
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Dr. Shaker treats many world class, professional and elite athletes. These professional and amateur athletes consult with Dr. Shaker to treat and prevent injury, as well as enhance performance. He has worked with athletes such as, Tampa Bay Buccaneer's Brian Kelly, Ryan Nece and Kenyatta Walker, Ellis Wyms, Cosey Coleman, Chicago Bears Running Back Thomas Jones and Atlanta Falcon's Probowl Running Back Warrick Dunn.
When Dr. Shaker is not working with his patients, he enjoys weight lifting, garden design, orchid growing, antiqueing, travelling, reading, architecture, interior design & art collection.
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Family
Shaker Family Portrait
(Flint, Michigan)
"That's little me on the left!"
(from top left to right: mother Rosemary, father Paul, Dr. Shaker, little sisters Mona & Lisa)
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Former Northern Standout Died Doing Something He Loved
Shaker was a member of Flint Hall
by Edward L. Ronders
Paul T. Shaker's quiet kindness and compassion spoke
volumes about the man.
"Paul had the capacity to be a kind, gentle man. he wasn't flamboyant, but had a gift of kindness that was unmeasurable," said Larry Makimaa, Shaker's long-time friend and felow golfer.
Shaker, 71, died Sunday at the Elks Club of Flint, minutes after sinking a difficult putt on Number 11.
About 36 hours earlier, Shaker had rejoiced after he, his son-in-law and Makimaa, won the club's shootout.
H"He ded doing what he loved to do, play golf, and bieng with someone he loved, his son-in-law," Makimaa sai. "That was a tough, tough 20-footer from above the hole. After he hit it, he said , "Dr. Shaker's in the house."
Then he got in the cart and slumped over on Bob's shoulder."
Shaker lived in the Flint and Flushing area nearly his entire life.
An All-State football player at Flint Norther, he attended Michigan State University and was a member of the Spartan's Rose Bowl team. He was a member of the Greater Flint Area Sports hall of Fame for his exploits with Guy Houston's Vikings.
The intensity in the gridiron turned to sincerity in real life, friends said, as Shaker carved out a unique career selling sporting goods to Flint-area schools.
Makimaa, who delivered the eulogy at Shaker's funeral Thursday, said the Elks Club recent invitational brought joy to Shaker, even though he didn't win it.
"As fate would have it, I was paired with his son-in-law, Bob (Knopp). Paul asked me if I'd let him caddy for us. If he hadn't asked, I would have disqualified myself."
Shaker told Knopp to practice hitting the ball from 110 yards out, Makimaa said.
"It was eerie, but the first hole, I hit within about 110 yards of the green. Bob then hit the next shot right on the green. It was fate."
Less than two days later, Shaker collapsed and died playing the game he loved.
"The guy had no enemies," said Makin=maa. "He was a kind and gentle person who wanted to make the world a kinder, gentler place."
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Inspiration
leonardo's vitruvian man
"We know very little about Leonardo’s apprenticeship in Verroccio’s workshop, but the short account provided by Vasari confirms that it included architectural and technological design, according to a concept that was being revived on the model of Vitruvius, as reproposed by Alberti" (Pedretti 14). Having had access to Alberti’s and Vitruvius’ treatises, it is no surprise that Leonardo produced his own version of the Vitruvian man in his notebooks.
This rendering of the Vitruvian Man, completed in 1490, is fundamentally different than others in two ways: The circle and square image overlaid on top of each other to form one image. A key adjustment was made that others had not done and thus were forced to make disproportionate appendages:
“Leonardo’s famous drawings of the Vitruvian proportions of a man’s body first standing inscribed in a square and then with feet and arms outspread inscribed in a circle provides an excellent early example of the way in which his studies of proportion fuse artistic and scientific objectives. It is Leonardo, not Vitruvius, who points out that ‘If you open the legs so as to reduce the stature by one-fourteenth and open and raise your arms so that your middle fingers touch the line through the top of the head, know that the centre of the extremities of the outspread limbs will be the umbilicus, and the space between the legs will make and equilateral triangle’ (Accademia, Venice). Here he provides one of his simplest illustrations of a shifting ‘centre of magnitude’ without a corresponding change of ‘centre of normal gravity’. This remains passing through the central line from the pit of the throat through the umbilicus and pubis between the legs. Leonardo repeatedly distinguishes these two different ‘centres’ of a body, i.e., the centers of ‘magnitude’ and ‘gravity (Keele 252).”
This image provides the perfect example of Leonardo's keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo's attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe."
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