#177: Training your nervous system with Dr. Eric Cobb
The Dr. Shannon Show
Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to Fitbody Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we have a very special guest, Dr. Eric Cobb. |
| 0:06.6 | He is the founder of Z-Health and I was actually introduced to Z-Health when I was in physical therapy school at one of my clinicals, |
| 0:16.6 | Bio-Fit in Kansas City. And it was a really interesting concept for me. |
| 0:23.1 | It's all about brain-based training. |
| 0:24.8 | We were doing vestibular drills. |
| 0:26.3 | We were doing sensory, using sensory tools on people |
| 0:31.0 | and we were finding that, oh my gosh, if you rub this person's foot, |
| 0:34.7 | their shoulder range of motion increases, or if you do this vestibular |
| 0:38.7 | drill with them, their hip all of a sudden feels better. |
| 0:41.4 | And it's all about training the brain instead of just |
| 0:45.3 | training the body and seeing really the brain and the body as one. And so in today's |
| 0:51.4 | topic we talk about that a little bit deeper. |
| 0:54.3 | He goes into neuroanatomy a little bit more. |
| 0:57.2 | We talk about mobility. |
| 0:59.2 | We talk about the benefits of mobility, |
| 1:00.8 | but then how mobility isn't everything. We talk about how to |
| 1:04.3 | test and retest. We talk about breathing. We talk about the visual system. We |
| 1:10.5 | talk about so many really interesting things that I think are not addressed enough in the fitness world. |
| 1:16.0 | I am very excited for you all to hear this make sure that you say until the end because Dr. Cobb |
| 1:21.8 | Talks about how you can work with him if you're a |
| 1:23.9 | physical therapist if you're a trainer if you are a fitness instructor or if you're |
| 1:27.6 | just a fitness enthusiast and you want to learn more about this he gives you |
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