90: Rehabilitating Your Body To Wellness With Movement And Matthew Zanis

On today’s podcast, we’re talking to Matthew Zanis. Matthew is many things, and amongst those, he has a Doctorate of Physical Therapy and is a strength and conditioning coach out of Phoenix, Arizona, but he pride’s himself in being a human movement expert. He is also an Orthopaedic Specialist and a manual therapy fellow – of which there are only 33 people in the entire country (USA) with that designation. His main passion and goal in life is to overhaul the way that physical movement education is being educated towards our rehabilitation providers; so, our physical therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers, and osteopaths. He helps his clients to achieve their goals by helping them move better and ultimately helps them live a better quality of life.He started his own Physical Theory practice back in 2016, and since then it allowed him to do contract work with the United States Olympic Comity. He also works with athletes from all levels of the spectrum of life from high school, all the way to collegiate athletes as well as with many cancer patients by incorporating movement and physical training into the plan of care for these patients, which is it's not being done anywhere else. The problem that he sees in many people is that they will go to treatment, but then they don’t continue to move and it becomes a constant repetitive cycle over and over again. When you start to move the body, you get a flow of oxygen and then things start to happen; we look better, we feel better and move better as well. We've become so enamored with this thought of exercise and functional fitness that we've forgotten how to move. If people started to just move more throughout the day, we wouldn't have a lot of these pathological issues that are occurring. Exercise is a subset of movement and it comes down to the attention and the intention of the movement that you're doing. Learn how to become more aware of your body and how to feel into that. Start with your breath. First thing in the morning before you get out of bed or do anything else, take a moment to just breathe. Feel your body and check-in and see how it's feeling. What are your thoughts for that day and then set an intention for that day? Ask yourself: What is it that I want to accomplish that day in my personal life, professional life and then with movement? Choose a movement that you love doing and something that makes you feel good. It’s also important to be 100% in tune with your body. Every ache and pain you experience is a message your body is trying to send to you to move differently and that's exactly what pain is. Our movement throughout the day and the things that we feel – all of these things are just neurological inputs into the brain which we have control over. Here's the signal of pain or tightness - you have to move differently. Do things differently than you currently are and if you don’t have a place to start, get a coach who can help you.Credentials: Matthew Zanis, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, OCS, ATC, CSCS, Cert-DNDirector of Rehabilitation and Performance, Causenta WellnessPhysical Therapist, United States Olympic Committee, USA Shooting Director, Orthopedic Physical Therapist Assistant Program, NxtGen Institute of Physical Therapy Fellow, American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists Power Athlete Block One Coachwww.causenta.com www.powerathletehq.comwww.usashooting.comGo to www.atlasbars.com to try my new obsession Atlas Protein Bars. If you purchase their 6 pack sample pack, you will receive $10 off when you use the discount code "MUVE".