Here is the 2014 weather report for Advanced Integration. Looks like it will be some pretty good weather (by Nebraska standards at least).
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ATC
PRI will be Closed November 27-28, 2014 to celebrate Thanksgiving. Normal hours will resume December 1. We are genuinely thankful for everyone who has attended a course in the past year. Have a great holiday with your friends and family!
Our 2015 course schedule just came out, you can view it here. Check out our Facebook status or Tweet to enter to be entered in a drawing for 25% off a primary course. If you are not on Facebook or Twitter you can type below with the course location you are most excited for in 2015 to be entered.
We recently had a request to purchase the PRI logo balls that we recently started sending to the host site's of our Myokinematic Restoration courses.These are great for adductor pullbacks and the 90-90 hemibridge and many other non-manual techniques that are listed on our n Non-Manual Techniques CDs. We now offer them for sale at $2.00 per ball plus shipping. If you are interested in ordering you can download an order form here and either email it to us at info@posturalrestoration.com or fax it to us at 402-467-4580. Minimum of 10 balls per order.
Takashi Onuki, ATC, CSCS recently helped write an article in a Japanese magazine, Tarzan (which is similar to our Men's Health magazine here in the States) discussing PRI and asymmetry. He has also taken the time to translate the article for us so we can share the article with all of you. To view this article in English, click HERE, and to view the Japanese version click HERE! As a result of the overwhelming interest for PRI in Japan, we are hoping to take a PRI course or two to Japan next summer! Stay tuned for more information!
After fielding a couple questions about the PRI Vision Integration for the Baseball Player course I felt like I still didn’t have a grasp of what the course actually was. I scheduled a time with Dr. Heidi Wise to talk about some of the concepts in the one day course. While I was with her for about an hour and a half she was able to teach me some of the visual integration and training that will be taught. All of the things that you will be learning the first two days in the PRI Integration for Baseball will directly tie into the Visual Integration course. If you are having an athlete that is not getting better with the exercises there may be a visual component that is the missing link. Specific visual integration activities in this course will be used to get around the limits for many athletes.
One of the things I learned about was how well the PRI Vision Integration for the Baseball Player goes hand and hand with all of the other PRI concepts I have been learning. It can directly impact all three planes of movement. I felt it first hand with a Peripheral Visual Awareness (side vision) activity, this is the first concept that will be taught. These activities will give the visual pathway a chance to wire the body to move in a correct movement pattern and keep vision from being a limit. The second activity was Visual Relaxation. I experienced how the posture of the body can change through the visual system focusing or relaxing activity. The third activity looked at Eyes moving independently of the head. In this section, muscle movement of the eyes and the head in common baseball positions that may cause the athlete to go into extension how to decrease this response will be discussed.
If these visual concepts are integrated and you are still not seeing progress there will be some next steps to determine what kind of visual intervention they need next. You will not need a team doctor to do these activities. An athletic trainer, strength coach or physical therapist would have no problem teaching them. After the time I spent with her, I am confident that I would be able to integrate some of the visual activities with baseball athletes.
For more information on this course or to sign up, CLICK HERE!
Myokinematic Restoration was my first live course that I’ve taken since starting with PRI about a month ago. The course was held at IFAST, the facilities were top notch but the thing that blew me away was how welcoming and genuine the people at the course were. I walked in not knowing a soul and I walked away feeling like I was leaving a family behind. I had never been to a place where people were so excited about learning, we all soaked it up.
My “aha moment” was when we were going over the Hruska Adduction Lift Test and I realized that every single movement in it reciprocates a part in the gait cycle. Jennifer did such a great job teaching and targeting her talk to the group of people she was speaking to. Her passion was contagious and the energy of the room matched her. This was by far my best professional experience. What was your first “aha moment” of your first course?
We are excited to announce a new PRI Vision course, PRI Vision Integration for the Baseball Player! This course will be taught by Dr. Heidi Wise and Ron Hruska, and will be offered the day after the PRI Integration for Baseball courses scheduled this November.
"This will be a different course from our Postural-Visual Integration course. We we will be introducing assessments specific to baseball that help those working with the players in the training room understand when the visual process is affecting players’ physical ability to bat and throw. There will also be concepts and activities taught that can be used in the training room and on the field to help reduce negative visual influences on the visual influences on these abilities, even without additional integration with an optometrist. “ – Dr. Heidi Wise, OD, FCOVD
To learn more about this course and to register click here.
