A complete health history will be taken during the first visit. The health history will include all of the major body systems, any injuries or surgeries, traumatic events, major illnesses or other major events that may have impacted your health. My goal is to understand the health concerns that are most important to you. Your
Understanding pain on a scientific and practical level is one of the key things that we must do as movement coaches. To do this most efficiently, it helps to understand the basic history of pain science. For hundreds of years, it was understood that the brain played a role in our pain. However, the problem
Neural plasticity is a term that is currently defined this way in the literature: Any change in neuron structure or function that is observed either directly from measures of individual neurons or inferred from measures taken across populations of neurons. We summarize this as “the nervous system’s ability to constantly change.” This concept tells us
To understand the complex interaction of the human nervous system, we want to start by discussing the basic functional unit of the brainthe neuron. At a fundamental level, the neuron is the operational cell of the central nervous system. Neurons do you really only two basic actions, they turn on or turn off other neurons
Z Health – A brain based approach where problematic areas of the brain and nervous system are assessed, treated, and optimized to decrease pain and maximize physical performance. Primitive reflex release techniques (PRRT) – A set of manual technique that take advantage of our body’s natural reflexes to decrease muscular tightness and calm the nervous
