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The Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) was established in 2000 to explore and explain the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles.
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We are excited to announce and congratulate the Postural Restoration Certified™ (PRC) Class of 2024! This was a special week...
In the seventies there was, and still is, one of my favorite rhythm and blues band from the Bay Area...
It was a world champion kind of weekend in Scottsdale as 3 attendees were part of the LA Dodgers organization!...
It was great to be back in the Windy City teaching Pelvis Restoration. Thank you Donna and Pilates Central for...
“An Interdisciplinary Approach in the Intervention of Patterned Visual Orientation and Visual Perception” By Ron Hruska Vision is the product...
Steps for Recovery, a Postural Restoration Certified Center and home for this past weekend’s Postural Restoration course, has offered its...
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So proud of you @kimberlywilliamspaisley and the amazing team that helped you be able to share your cover story OUT LOUD!
Head to PEOPLE at the link in our bio to listen to the full interview as Kimberly explains the multitude of treatment approaches utilized in restoring her voice from the ground up!
In print and online today!
Dec 20
So proud of you @kimberlywilliamspaisley and the amazing team that helped you be able to share your cover story OUT LOUD!
Head to PEOPLE at the link in our bio to listen to the full interview as Kimberly explains the multitude of treatment approaches utilized in restoring her voice from the ground up!
In print and online today!
Some of us were a little rough around the edges but new skills don’t always come easy…….unless your @torinberge
Happy Holidays from our Clan to yours!
Dec 18
Some of us were a little rough around the edges but new skills don’t always come easy…….unless your @torinberge
Happy Holidays from our Clan to yours!
Advanced Integration Day 2 & 3
A deep dive on triplanar activity of the pelvic and thoracic diaphragms followed by the brachial chains influence on thoracic scapular kinematics and airflow leading to conditions like the superior T4 syndrome and others.
Dec 17
Advanced Integration Day 2 & 3
A deep dive on triplanar activity of the pelvic and thoracic diaphragms followed by the brachial chains influence on thoracic scapular kinematics and airflow leading to conditions like the superior T4 syndrome and others.
Congratulations to the PRC class of 2024!
PRC credentialing is the result of completing multiple advanced PRI courses, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the science through completion of the PRC application, and successfully participating in practical and analytical testing. Earlier this week, 7 clinicians earned the designation of Postural Restoration Certified™ (PRC) under the direction of Ron Hruska, Kasey Ratliff, Skip George, and Jennifer Platt.
Back Row: Robert “Skip” George, Yoshi Fujii, Marlyn Bravo, Desiree Parham, Joshua Speckman, Jennifer Platt
Front Row: Ron Hruska, Mayami Oyanagi, Brynn Babb, Saundra Brogan, Kasey Ratliff
The Postural Restoration Institute® established this certification process in 2004 as a way to recognize and identify those individuals with advanced training, extraordinary interest and devotion to the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polvarticular chains of muscles on the human body as defined by the Postural Restoration Institute. The PRC credentialing program is available to physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, and chiropractors who have attended PRI courses, demonstrated a thorough understanding of the science through completion of the PRC application, and successfully participate in both clinical and analytical testing.
Dec 11
Congratulations to the PRC class of 2024!
PRC credentialing is the result of completing multiple advanced PRI courses, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the science through completion of the PRC application, and successfully participating in practical and analytical testing. Earlier this week, 7 clinicians earned the designation of Postural Restoration Certified™ (PRC) under the direction of Ron Hruska, Kasey Ratliff, Skip George, and Jennifer Platt.
Back Row: Robert “Skip” George, Yoshi Fujii, Marlyn Bravo, Desiree Parham, Joshua Speckman, Jennifer Platt
Front Row: Ron Hruska, Mayami Oyanagi, Brynn Babb, Saundra Brogan, Kasey Ratliff
The Postural Restoration Institute® established this certification process in 2004 as a way to recognize and identify those individuals with advanced training, extraordinary interest and devotion to the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polvarticular chains of muscles on the human body as defined by the Postural Restoration Institute. The PRC credentialing program is available to physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, and chiropractors who have attended PRI courses, demonstrated a thorough understanding of the science through completion of the PRC application, and successfully participate in both clinical and analytical testing.
A decade later and “Retro” is finally being Re-explored!
Standing Integration (104)
“Retro Walking” ca. 2012
Article available via @womenshealthmag
Dec 10
A decade later and “Retro” is finally being Re-explored!
Standing Integration (104)
“Retro Walking” ca. 2012
Article available via @womenshealthmag
❇️25% off in 2025❇️
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TWO people will randomly receive 25% off their next course in 2025!🏷️
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Dec 2
❇️25% off in 2025❇️
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TWO people will randomly receive 25% off their next course in 2025!🏷️
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The non-manual techniques within this lifetime collection began in 1980 with a 90-90 Supported Left Hemibridge as a way to unload the temporomandibular joint by facilitating a left hamstring in patients who demonstrated compensatory forward head posture.
With over 600 techniques to choose from there is something to address all your patients positional needs!
And there is no better time to expand your library than NOW!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of #prination
Nov 27
The non-manual techniques within this lifetime collection began in 1980 with a 90-90 Supported Left Hemibridge as a way to unload the temporomandibular joint by facilitating a left hamstring in patients who demonstrated compensatory forward head posture.
With over 600 techniques to choose from there is something to address all your patients positional needs!
And there is no better time to expand your library than NOW!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of #prination
“This is the why. This is why I work the way that I do and why I feel so passionate about being able to deliver a program with the right team around me in the most complete way for the patient.
This is personal for me and bringing this to as many people I can is my way of showing gratitude to the people who have helped me and have made all the difference in my personal and professional life. @posturalrestoration @hruska_clinic
Thank you to @thevideoartists for their amazing work (and patience with me 😄) filming a ton of content over a period of days, and beautifully editing it, which I will be posting periodically to showcase to kind of work we are doing @renaissance_pt .
Thank you to past, current and future clients for their trust. Stay tuned for more!”
#repost
@renaissance_pt 💚
Nov 21
“This is the why. This is why I work the way that I do and why I feel so passionate about being able to deliver a program with the right team around me in the most complete way for the patient.
This is personal for me and bringing this to as many people I can is my way of showing gratitude to the people who have helped me and have made all the difference in my personal and professional life. @posturalrestoration @hruska_clinic
Thank you to @thevideoartists for their amazing work (and patience with me 😄) filming a ton of content over a period of days, and beautifully editing it, which I will be posting periodically to showcase to kind of work we are doing @renaissance_pt .
Thank you to past, current and future clients for their trust. Stay tuned for more!”
#repost
@renaissance_pt 💚
“Results: The results showed a significant difference between the QoL, pain intensity, function, and PROM of left hip adduction in the group with PR exercises with and without core exercises and control (P=0.000). In the PR group with core exercises (P=0.001) and without core exercises (P=0.001), a significant increase was observed in the adduction of the left hip. There was no significant difference between the function (P=0.850), pain (P=0.120), QoL (P=0.328), and PROM (P=0.094) in the intervention groups.
Conclusion: PR exercises with and without core stability are equally effective in reducing pain and improving function, QoL, and hip adduction range of motion in women with left anterior interior chain patterns”
Nov 20
“Results: The results showed a significant difference between the QoL, pain intensity, function, and PROM of left hip adduction in the group with PR exercises with and without core exercises and control (P=0.000). In the PR group with core exercises (P=0.001) and without core exercises (P=0.001), a significant increase was observed in the adduction of the left hip. There was no significant difference between the function (P=0.850), pain (P=0.120), QoL (P=0.328), and PROM (P=0.094) in the intervention groups.
Conclusion: PR exercises with and without core stability are equally effective in reducing pain and improving function, QoL, and hip adduction range of motion in women with left anterior interior chain patterns”
“If the inlet is in ABDuction, the outlet is in ADDuction on the same side”
Pelvis Restoration Livestream
@jenpoulinpt x @jmillermtpt
November 15-16th, 2024
Check out the FREE webinars on the Hruska Abduction & Adduction Lift Tests for more frontal plane mechanics! (Available on our webinars page)
Nov 19
“If the inlet is in ABDuction, the outlet is in ADDuction on the same side”
Pelvis Restoration Livestream
@jenpoulinpt x @jmillermtpt
November 15-16th, 2024
Check out the FREE webinars on the Hruska Abduction & Adduction Lift Tests for more frontal plane mechanics! (Available on our webinars page)
“Cervical Revolution is the conduit to introducing bottom up as well as top down concepts from the cervical spine, cranium, and occlusal system that first require an understanding of the most important neurologic articulation in the body called the atlas and occipital bone. This is where the brainstem is located and is highly sensitive to pressure and movement especially pressure from a head that is forward on a neck that has lost it’s normal 30 degrees of lordosis. If that 30 degrees is lost, then 30 degrees of mid-cervical lateral flexion and 30 degrees of rotation is lost as well.”
- Robert “Skip” George
Nov 14
“Cervical Revolution is the conduit to introducing bottom up as well as top down concepts from the cervical spine, cranium, and occlusal system that first require an understanding of the most important neurologic articulation in the body called the atlas and occipital bone. This is where the brainstem is located and is highly sensitive to pressure and movement especially pressure from a head that is forward on a neck that has lost it’s normal 30 degrees of lordosis. If that 30 degrees is lost, then 30 degrees of mid-cervical lateral flexion and 30 degrees of rotation is lost as well.”
- Robert “Skip” George
Movement requires us to remain IMBALANCED!
If you help individuals move through space you might want to check out the FLM concepts to help them become limitless!
Thanks to everyone who joined us from around the world for this 2 day discussion on Forward Locomotor Movement.
Nov 12
Movement requires us to remain IMBALANCED!
If you help individuals move through space you might want to check out the FLM concepts to help them become limitless!
Thanks to everyone who joined us from around the world for this 2 day discussion on Forward Locomotor Movement.
“It was a world champion kind of weekend in Scottsdale as 3 attendees were part of the LA Dodgers organization! We had a variety of attendees from chiropractors, ATCs, strength & conditioning/personal trainers, and physical therapists. The morning started off learning the intricacies of the terminology (based on osteopathic terminology) when discussing position of the pelvis and femur and how significant this can be before initiating treatment.
I love that this course offers so much lab time to test and discuss the objective measures to confirm the didactic material from the morning. Learning the Hruska Adduction Drop Test was our confirmation bias for the left anterior chain pattern as identified in all attendees this weekend. We ended the day with repositioning techniques and learning about respiration and the value of an exhalation.
The next day, the Hruska Adduction lift test humbled most as we assessed the ability to be able to “shift” successfully in the frontal plane. We discussed treatment at all levels of this lift test to be able to prescribe treatment appropriately. I took a “patient” through the myokinematic hierarchy and it was valuable seeing the progress in the ability for the patient to obtain neutrality and improve on the lift scores within just a few techniques. The power of PRI never ceases to amaze me. Thank you to our gracious host @dprphysicaltherapy and Brennan Hodge for the awesome hospitality.“
-Kasey
Nov 11
“It was a world champion kind of weekend in Scottsdale as 3 attendees were part of the LA Dodgers organization! We had a variety of attendees from chiropractors, ATCs, strength & conditioning/personal trainers, and physical therapists. The morning started off learning the intricacies of the terminology (based on osteopathic terminology) when discussing position of the pelvis and femur and how significant this can be before initiating treatment.
I love that this course offers so much lab time to test and discuss the objective measures to confirm the didactic material from the morning. Learning the Hruska Adduction Drop Test was our confirmation bias for the left anterior chain pattern as identified in all attendees this weekend. We ended the day with repositioning techniques and learning about respiration and the value of an exhalation.
The next day, the Hruska Adduction lift test humbled most as we assessed the ability to be able to “shift” successfully in the frontal plane. We discussed treatment at all levels of this lift test to be able to prescribe treatment appropriately. I took a “patient” through the myokinematic hierarchy and it was valuable seeing the progress in the ability for the patient to obtain neutrality and improve on the lift scores within just a few techniques. The power of PRI never ceases to amaze me. Thank you to our gracious host @dprphysicaltherapy and Brennan Hodge for the awesome hospitality.“
-Kasey
It was great to be back in the Windy City teaching Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @donnapbyrne and Pilates Central for hosting us this past weekend.
It was a weekend filled with new course attendees and others expanding their journey in PRI. The “brain twists” this weekend:
1. The pelvic diaphragm (floor) has a left and right side.
2. Muscle don’t have origins and insertions, but rather attachment sites and can influence the position of bones.
3. The frontal plane importance of our ability to move side to side.
4. The concept of compression and decompression with position and airflow.
5. How the pelvis influences the spine all the way up to the neck and all the way down to the foot and ankle.
The energy and enthusiasm for this science was high and the quest to learn more from these practitioners was astounding.
Thank you for the gift of time and allowing me to teach!
-Lori
Nov 8
It was great to be back in the Windy City teaching Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @donnapbyrne and Pilates Central for hosting us this past weekend.
It was a weekend filled with new course attendees and others expanding their journey in PRI. The “brain twists” this weekend:
1. The pelvic diaphragm (floor) has a left and right side.
2. Muscle don’t have origins and insertions, but rather attachment sites and can influence the position of bones.
3. The frontal plane importance of our ability to move side to side.
4. The concept of compression and decompression with position and airflow.
5. How the pelvis influences the spine all the way up to the neck and all the way down to the foot and ankle.
The energy and enthusiasm for this science was high and the quest to learn more from these practitioners was astounding.
Thank you for the gift of time and allowing me to teach!
-Lori
ADVANCED INTEGRATION 2024 is one month away!
Register by the end of the day tomorrow to receive the early registration rate!
4 Days
7 Presenters
30 Contact Hrs.
December 5-8th
Live or Live-streamed from around the world.
If you`ve completed the Primary Courses but haven`t quite solidified how they should be integrated together to maximize success, it`s time to take a deeper dive!
Can’t wait to see you all for the last course of the year!
#prination
Nov 7
ADVANCED INTEGRATION 2024 is one month away!
Register by the end of the day tomorrow to receive the early registration rate!
4 Days
7 Presenters
30 Contact Hrs.
December 5-8th
Live or Live-streamed from around the world.
If you`ve completed the Primary Courses but haven`t quite solidified how they should be integrated together to maximize success, it`s time to take a deeper dive!
Can’t wait to see you all for the last course of the year!
#prination
Episode 36 with @yoshi.mitsuyama is live! Yoshi has a unique experience, spanning from working with collegiate and professional soccer athletes, singers in Nashville and individuals who are just trying to get out of bed each day!
Whether trying to maintain performance at a high level, or attempting to overcome stressors that limit us from standing, individuals on both sides of the spectrum often get labeled with the same dysautonomia diagnosis and can benefit from similar reprogramming.
Nov 6
Episode 36 with @yoshi.mitsuyama is live! Yoshi has a unique experience, spanning from working with collegiate and professional soccer athletes, singers in Nashville and individuals who are just trying to get out of bed each day!
Whether trying to maintain performance at a high level, or attempting to overcome stressors that limit us from standing, individuals on both sides of the spectrum often get labeled with the same dysautonomia diagnosis and can benefit from similar reprogramming.
“Vision is the product of the interaction of four components, anti-gravity, centering, identification, and the speech-auditory process. This is the first sentence of the introductory section of the course, and was written by AM Skeffington in his 1964 ‘Introduction of Clinical Optometry’ course. The anti-gravity system is responsible for balance and posture. The centering system is defined as an attentional and orienting system for selecting where the body, head and eyes are directed.
Our hemi-environments, and their associated occupancy of our body, require vertical visual vestibular vigilance. How we direct ourselves, place ourselves, and use the space activity around us and the air-flow in us, all depend on our midline and center experiences, as related to our vestibular sense and visual perception.
A course attendee wrote, “I am pouring over the course notes and your attention to detail for this course was so well done!!! I appreciated how you took each journal article and highlighted the importance of what you gained from their insight regarding vision, sensory input, pedal sense, and the ability move forward.”
Another attendee wrote, “I appreciate all the work and research that went into this. The recognition of all of the research considered was important for the optometrist that attended the course with me. I think that was quite valuable and I appreciated the main points of how to recognize the value of ground-up position and input before refraction was stressed . .. “
Our mechanoreception is built around standing and upright movement on two feet, using two upper extremities, and the cortical visual processing associated with this upright proprioceptive control. Therefore, this course outlines how to arrive at binocular alignment at distance, when standing, to reduce misalignment tendencies, overuse of visual vergence, and visual vestibular instability related to depth imperception.
If you want more information on how to clinically involve and incorporate both eyes with both feet, equally, as much as possible, for acceptable vertical behavior, then this course was organized and is being offered for you.”
- Ron Hruska
Oct 31
“Vision is the product of the interaction of four components, anti-gravity, centering, identification, and the speech-auditory process. This is the first sentence of the introductory section of the course, and was written by AM Skeffington in his 1964 ‘Introduction of Clinical Optometry’ course. The anti-gravity system is responsible for balance and posture. The centering system is defined as an attentional and orienting system for selecting where the body, head and eyes are directed.
Our hemi-environments, and their associated occupancy of our body, require vertical visual vestibular vigilance. How we direct ourselves, place ourselves, and use the space activity around us and the air-flow in us, all depend on our midline and center experiences, as related to our vestibular sense and visual perception.
A course attendee wrote, “I am pouring over the course notes and your attention to detail for this course was so well done!!! I appreciated how you took each journal article and highlighted the importance of what you gained from their insight regarding vision, sensory input, pedal sense, and the ability move forward.”
Another attendee wrote, “I appreciate all the work and research that went into this. The recognition of all of the research considered was important for the optometrist that attended the course with me. I think that was quite valuable and I appreciated the main points of how to recognize the value of ground-up position and input before refraction was stressed . .. “
Our mechanoreception is built around standing and upright movement on two feet, using two upper extremities, and the cortical visual processing associated with this upright proprioceptive control. Therefore, this course outlines how to arrive at binocular alignment at distance, when standing, to reduce misalignment tendencies, overuse of visual vergence, and visual vestibular instability related to depth imperception.
If you want more information on how to clinically involve and incorporate both eyes with both feet, equally, as much as possible, for acceptable vertical behavior, then this course was organized and is being offered for you.”
- Ron Hruska
Dynamic respiration review with Dan!
Trunk rotation requires ribcage rotation driven by respiration, which can be facilitated by FULL exhalation utilizing a balloon! 🎈
Oct 30
Dynamic respiration review with Dan!
Trunk rotation requires ribcage rotation driven by respiration, which can be facilitated by FULL exhalation utilizing a balloon! 🎈
@stepsforrecovery a Postural Restoration Certified Center and home for this past weekend’s Postural Restoration course, has offered its patients the Postural Restoration model of care for many years. Several of their clinicians were in attendance to sharpen their PRI skills. In addition, nearly a third of participants were newcomers to the science of human movement. They were treated to the collective wisdom of three PRC-credentialed clinicians, who elevated the course for all: Craig Depperschmidt, PT, Lisa Mangino, PT, and Sangini Rane, PT.
Our patients/clients often are clueless about where our diaphragm is and how it moves and functions and how our rib cages become stiff and patterned. Furthermore, they often function in a state of hyperinflation, with poor neuro-sensory awareness that doesn’t allow them to get out of this state. Our thorax, after all, houses so much of our physiology and, when stiff and patterned, influences both movement and psycho-sensory processing. Want to help your patient/client with more efficient movement? Resolve headaches, shoulder, neck, and back pain and the multitude of extremity “-itis’s”? Hasten recovery from surgical procedures? Reduce anxiety, gut issues, and shortness of breath? Do you strive to elevate your practice through improved understanding of how and why our asymmetrical diaphragm becomes patterned in its position and movement? And how and why this pattern influences, for better or worse, the way we move our bodies, when upright, against gravity? Postural Restoration addresses these challenges, with multiple evidence-based research and real-life patient photos and videos and lots of hands-on lab sessions to guide the attendee through assessment and treatment.
A huge “thank you” goes out to our lab models, who gamely served as patient avatars to allow us to understand how to assess pelvis and thorax position and pathology, and how to treat what we see. Ashley, Lauren, and Katie: I speak for the class when I say we appreciated your wonderful hospitality this weekend. Thank you for inviting us in and providing a comfortable atmosphere!
-Louise Kelley
Oct 29
@stepsforrecovery a Postural Restoration Certified Center and home for this past weekend’s Postural Restoration course, has offered its patients the Postural Restoration model of care for many years. Several of their clinicians were in attendance to sharpen their PRI skills. In addition, nearly a third of participants were newcomers to the science of human movement. They were treated to the collective wisdom of three PRC-credentialed clinicians, who elevated the course for all: Craig Depperschmidt, PT, Lisa Mangino, PT, and Sangini Rane, PT.
Our patients/clients often are clueless about where our diaphragm is and how it moves and functions and how our rib cages become stiff and patterned. Furthermore, they often function in a state of hyperinflation, with poor neuro-sensory awareness that doesn’t allow them to get out of this state. Our thorax, after all, houses so much of our physiology and, when stiff and patterned, influences both movement and psycho-sensory processing. Want to help your patient/client with more efficient movement? Resolve headaches, shoulder, neck, and back pain and the multitude of extremity “-itis’s”? Hasten recovery from surgical procedures? Reduce anxiety, gut issues, and shortness of breath? Do you strive to elevate your practice through improved understanding of how and why our asymmetrical diaphragm becomes patterned in its position and movement? And how and why this pattern influences, for better or worse, the way we move our bodies, when upright, against gravity? Postural Restoration addresses these challenges, with multiple evidence-based research and real-life patient photos and videos and lots of hands-on lab sessions to guide the attendee through assessment and treatment.
A huge “thank you” goes out to our lab models, who gamely served as patient avatars to allow us to understand how to assess pelvis and thorax position and pathology, and how to treat what we see. Ashley, Lauren, and Katie: I speak for the class when I say we appreciated your wonderful hospitality this weekend. Thank you for inviting us in and providing a comfortable atmosphere!
-Louise Kelley
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