Check out the latest blog story written by Jennifer Gloystein, DPT, ATC, PRC on treadmills and television. Click HERE!
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One of our newest PRC clinicians, Jen Gloystein, DPT, ATC, PRC, wrote a blog on the importance of exhalation. You can read it HERE!
Check out our latest interview with Karen Jiran, MPT, PRC by clicking HERE!
In this video, Lori Thomsen, MPT, PRC discusses how devices such as the Power Lung could help your physical therapy program! You can order the Power Lung HERE!
A course attendee who has been practicing PRI for years sent us this email from a patient he recently saw…
“I just wanted to again express my sincere thanks for your help with my back issues! I continue to make progress each week but most notably with a couple items. Driving for an extended period of time has killed my back for the past several years. My last trip which was 6 hours one way was the most comfortable in many years. Also, my right calf (since I ruptured my right achilles about 15 years ago) has looked like it belonged to a child despite much physical therapy and work on my own to bring it back over the course of time. I finally gave up on it a few years ago. It has fired more and developed more muscle tone in the last 5 weeks than at any point since I blew it out. This may not sound like a lot but to me it has been life transforming. I will forever be indebted to you both.”
Last week Gregory Parfianowicz traveled to Poland to educate a group of therapists and dentists on Postural Respiration and Cervical-Cranio-Mandibular Restoration. We asked Gregory a few questions about his trip…
Who was in attendance?
We had physical therapists, dentists, dental technicians and orthodontists attending a 2-day PRI overview course with emphasis on “Cervical-Cranial -Mandibular Restoration”.
I was impressed that so many dentists are considering, if not already , working closely with physical therapists (at least 3 attendees have extra room in their office for PT and employ one on part time basis).
Why do you think there is an interest from the dentists in that area?
I believe that dentists and orthodontists in Poland are becoming even more concerned with patients not responding fully to their treatment and the patients are breaking appliances/crowns more often on the left side than right. They are concerned with those patients negatively advertising their practice in cases where they are being charged for the service which didn’t work.
By the end of each day we had a discussion going all over the room with suggestions, it wasn’t one way communication, it was sharing information between each profession to help the patient.
One dentist sent a text to her husband during lunch on the first day- “Before I do any type of tooth work, including fillings, I need to contact and discuss the case with the patient’s physical therapist, optometrist, and psychiatrist.”
Do you have any future plans for PRI courses in Poland?
We hope to do the next course for “teams” of physical therapists and dentists in the spring of 2012 and hopefully another Myokinematic Restoration course for physical therapists as well.
Two new articles were added to the PRI Library and to the Myokinematic Restoration course reference list. The JOSPT published an article on the relationship of hip strengthening and patellofemoral pain in August and Sports Health also published a similar article on this same subject. To read the article from JOSPT, click here! To read about the article published in Sports Health, click here!
Ron and I spent 2 days last week working on the new CD’s that we hope to have completed by the end of the year. Several people have inquired about the new CD’s. Let me tell you what I know up until this point…
The CD’s will be different than what we currently have on our shelves. There will be 3 new CD’s that compliment our 3 pre-requisite courses: Myokinematic Restoration, Pelvis Restoration and Postural Respiration. On these 3 CD’s you will find a Re-positioning program, Desirable muscle programs, Inhibition as related to the course and Integration. All of our activity will now be found on one of these 3 CD’s. When taking our Secondary courses (Impingement and Instability, Cervical-Cranio-Mandibular Restoration, Advanced Integration), you will have already received the activity that corresponds to these courses through the pre-requisite courses. In addition to the layout of the CD’s being different, we have also added roughly 200 new techniques.
Again, our hope is to have these completed by the end of the year. We have spent HOURS working on the placement, progression, and wording on each and every technique but we still have a lot of work ahead of us.
Ron taught Cervical-Cranio-Mandibular Restoration in Loveland, Colorado this past weekend. The great people at Rebound Sports and Physical Therapy gave him this x-ray image. What a great picture of left anterior innominate rotation with compensatory left femoral acetabular external rotation!
Essex Physical Therapy in Essex Junction, VT has been working hard on their new PRI pool. It is expected to be done in October. Visit Essex Physical Therapy’s Facebook page for pictures and more information!
